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 5975-01-143-4802
NSN 6650-01-406-4959
NSN 5930-01-408-3554
NSN 5945-00-406-8761
NSN 5945-00-541-7833
NSN 5935-01-605-1403
NSN 6105-00-491-0437
NSN 6610-01-474-5206
NSN 6135-00-921-6487
NSN 6150-01-343-2924
NSN 6650-01-629-0096
NSN 6610-01-487-6843