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 2925-01-440-9912
NSN 5910-01-110-4379
NSN 6685-00-009-2325
NSN 6685-00-243-8071
NSN 5990-01-064-7157
NSN 6620-00-402-6587
NSN 5950-01-440-2786
NSN 5910-01-600-6708
NSN 6645-01-399-0329
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5925-01-118-7438
NSN 6110-00-924-1145