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 4140-01-442-6442
NSN 5945-00-500-5603
NSN 5835-01-642-4705
NSN 5935-00-554-4124
NSN 5965-00-309-4814
NSN 4140-00-005-4574
NSN 5996-01-488-8420
NSN 5945-01-090-2036
NSN 6685-00-466-8879
NSN 6220-00-269-3783
NSN 5920-01-144-1500
NSN 5965-00-351-7460