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 5915-00-142-6912
NSN 5855-01-141-8227
NSN 5990-01-089-6743
NSN 6110-00-624-5989
NSN 5920-01-089-7903
NSN 5960-00-725-4547
NSN 6645-00-099-6913
NSN 6620-01-226-8639
NSN 5920-00-824-7678
NSN 6685-01-534-7944
NSN 6145-01-334-8036
NSN 6150-00-473-1520