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 5996-00-977-8018
NSN 6135-00-062-5080
NSN 5945-00-550-0000
NSN 6135-01-521-0378
NSN 5965-01-589-3968
NSN 6610-00-542-6307
NSN 5925-01-458-6449
NSN 5975-01-528-4881
NSN 7035-01-369-1445
NSN 6150-01-076-4811
NSN 5999-00-405-7629
NSN 5965-01-091-1884