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 4140-01-353-7761
NSN 6650-01-560-8576
NSN 6620-01-352-5640
NSN 6130-01-431-8530
NSN 5910-00-789-8368
NSN 2925-01-039-6856
NSN 5945-01-647-3839
NSN 5990-01-529-8433
NSN 5975-01-532-0405
NSN 5915-01-166-1908
NSN 7035-01-062-0184
NSN 5998-01-479-0038