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 5930-00-189-2362
NSN 6145-01-441-2630
NSN 2925-01-424-0235
NSN 5920-01-272-8902
NSN 5855-00-014-5008
NSN 5996-00-239-4782
NSN 5998-01-124-9577
NSN 6240-01-528-9653
NSN 5960-01-072-7118
NSN 6645-01-473-3752
NSN 6145-00-786-7980
NSN 5855-00-688-9954