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 5895-01-351-3203
NSN 6150-01-452-7776
NSN 5975-01-537-0956
NSN 6220-01-432-0816
NSN 2925-01-660-9597
NSN 5975-00-330-0120
NSN 5935-01-376-0242
NSN 5835-01-351-3425
NSN 6685-00-196-0304
NSN 5930-01-462-7142
NSN 5985-00-179-5199
NSN 6650-01-063-2834