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 7035-00-861-7913
NSN 5895-01-630-8165
NSN 4140-01-281-8832
NSN 5835-01-126-9358
NSN 6320-01-230-8444
NSN 5985-00-507-9574
NSN 5985-01-197-0548
NSN 6110-01-539-4431
NSN 5975-00-757-8138
NSN 5855-00-079-2370
NSN 5930-01-172-6476
NSN 6650-00-172-7519