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 5975-01-581-6708
NSN 6240-01-654-9278
NSN 6685-01-270-0251
NSN 6240-01-468-7351
NSN 6220-00-283-9791
NSN 4140-01-540-8638
NSN 6610-01-315-7002
NSN 6240-01-553-3154
NSN 5975-00-092-8861
NSN 6620-00-905-6590
NSN 6610-01-549-1802
NSN 5998-01-557-8287