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 5975-01-244-4636
NSN 6320-01-436-0513
NSN 5950-01-540-6945
NSN 5999-01-498-1391
NSN 6620-00-850-8615
NSN 6220-00-860-5292
NSN 6145-01-320-8862
NSN 6645-01-370-5264
NSN 6320-01-607-1491
NSN 5990-01-471-7858
NSN 6220-01-514-2141
NSN 6645-01-255-0391