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 5905-00-172-5272
NSN 6150-00-923-6647
NSN 6320-00-809-5744
NSN 6685-01-124-3538
NSN 5935-00-651-5623
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 4140-01-578-8358
NSN 6650-00-279-5741
NSN 5910-00-871-8454
NSN 5905-00-118-7994
NSN 6645-01-116-6975
NSN 5985-00-834-1175