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 6110-01-451-4326
NSN 6145-01-624-0094
NSN 6220-01-427-2333
NSN 5990-01-071-1505
NSN 6130-01-441-1940
NSN 6645-01-217-2888
NSN 6135-01-387-0754
NSN 5965-01-361-7540
NSN 5998-00-232-2137
NSN 6110-01-515-9937
NSN 5915-00-760-6999
NSN 6130-00-242-1465