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 6620-00-905-6590
NSN 5915-00-553-8755
NSN 6130-01-658-3564
NSN 5920-00-931-6528
NSN 5999-01-321-7209
NSN 5925-01-153-7493
NSN 4140-01-295-8264
NSN 5920-00-333-4633
NSN 5975-00-085-4527
NSN 5930-01-551-1388
NSN 6145-00-493-4073
NSN 5895-01-577-9438