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 5920-01-437-2773
NSN 5945-00-923-4291
NSN 5996-00-262-5094
NSN 5985-00-217-1624
NSN 6620-00-270-3275
NSN 6145-00-837-5977
NSN 5835-01-495-0595
NSN 4140-00-677-3510
NSN 6150-00-233-6356
NSN 6645-01-609-7365
NSN 5945-01-386-0499
NSN 6135-01-454-9408