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 4140-01-558-8942
NSN 5905-00-153-4822
NSN 5999-01-568-5824
NSN 5985-01-218-6150
NSN 5910-01-468-6632
NSN 5990-01-408-4188
NSN 5985-01-227-8449
NSN 5910-01-302-1618
NSN 7035-00-631-3782
NSN 6130-01-268-8062
NSN 6130-01-480-2107
NSN 5950-01-128-0510