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 5999-01-568-5824
NSN 5960-01-172-2088
NSN 6105-01-327-9407
NSN 6240-01-183-5425
NSN 5975-01-334-1000
NSN 5855-01-180-5369
NSN 4140-01-311-4769
NSN 5996-01-062-0807
NSN 5925-00-451-2061
NSN 6240-01-542-7239
NSN 6320-00-371-8335
NSN 5935-01-255-7982