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 6220-00-981-9184
NSN 5999-01-056-1647
NSN 6320-01-176-8367
NSN 7035-00-054-3414
NSN 5855-01-453-1549
NSN 6650-00-550-6111
NSN 5925-01-604-8985
NSN 6650-01-079-1608
NSN 5960-01-462-1864
NSN 6150-00-580-0511
NSN 6145-01-131-4094
NSN 4140-01-148-4634