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 5965-00-589-1228
NSN 5895-01-660-2431
NSN 6145-01-149-2964
NSN 5990-00-164-1677
NSN 5910-00-148-0019
NSN 5930-00-224-8402
NSN 5999-00-790-4401
NSN 5895-01-541-4812
NSN 5990-00-532-2641
NSN 5855-01-656-6808
NSN 6130-00-682-3350
NSN 2925-00-737-6476