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 6685-01-371-3050
NSN 5990-01-387-6114
NSN 5920-00-701-1200
NSN 6645-01-033-5051
NSN 6150-01-212-3003
NSN 6220-01-212-3254
NSN 6150-00-960-4987
NSN 6650-00-398-1821
NSN 5910-00-910-6112
NSN 6150-01-579-3852
NSN 5996-00-417-9706
NSN 5999-01-549-9664