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 5965-01-129-8551
NSN 6135-00-112-8637
NSN 6650-01-649-6849
NSN 5999-00-925-0815
NSN 5996-01-128-4811
NSN 5930-01-051-1709
NSN 6650-01-302-7685
NSN 7035-01-395-0757
NSN 5999-01-155-4159
NSN 6620-00-909-3984
NSN 5835-00-466-3075
NSN 6610-01-652-7448