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 5925-00-179-4626
NSN 6650-01-487-1342
NSN 2925-00-540-9918
NSN 6650-01-146-5000
NSN 6685-01-202-8900
NSN 6320-01-384-3850
NSN 2925-00-808-5077
NSN 5910-01-328-8539
NSN 6220-01-554-2501
NSN 6220-00-111-3188
NSN 5935-01-359-9331
NSN 5905-01-658-2324