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 6145-01-401-3713
NSN 6610-01-633-8931
NSN 5999-01-352-5855
NSN 5998-01-134-5059
NSN 6610-01-247-6374
NSN 6685-00-694-1971
NSN 5960-01-453-6170
NSN 6130-01-369-0685
NSN 5965-01-648-8042
NSN 5835-00-707-6266
NSN 5925-00-275-7599
NSN 4140-01-320-7527