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 2925-00-936-9344
NSN 5960-00-231-3767
NSN 5915-01-312-6715
NSN 5945-01-157-4611
NSN 6150-01-248-4902
NSN 6645-00-510-6643
NSN 5950-01-150-5560
NSN 6320-01-321-7658
NSN 6650-01-217-0303
NSN 5945-01-508-9075
NSN 5996-00-196-7258
NSN 5960-00-886-6555