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 5960-00-181-0640
NSN 5920-00-839-5438
NSN 5925-00-284-3726
NSN 5925-01-572-3263
NSN 5925-01-125-0403
NSN 5905-01-573-7528
NSN 5950-01-309-4891
NSN 5975-01-168-0647
NSN 5920-01-311-3306
NSN 6240-01-111-5623
NSN 6135-01-020-3805
NSN 6220-01-219-5602