An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5985-00-721-1909
NSN 5935-01-328-0560
NSN 6645-00-137-1167
NSN 5925-01-383-8720
NSN 5990-00-081-3357
NSN 7035-00-922-5700
NSN 2925-01-577-0004
NSN 5935-00-372-5261
NSN 5990-01-460-6390
NSN 6650-00-862-7143
NSN 6320-01-173-7950
NSN 5945-01-290-2437