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 5920-01-194-2213
NSN 5835-01-487-3042
NSN 5996-00-132-4203
NSN 5945-00-558-8549
NSN 5895-01-188-7470
NSN 6110-01-250-6886
NSN 6610-00-001-9683
NSN 5835-01-328-6626
NSN 5975-01-550-3692
NSN 5945-00-067-6712
NSN 5930-01-577-4536
NSN 5920-01-616-9072