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 6620-01-416-1757
NSN 5910-01-607-0208
NSN 6150-01-581-8775
NSN 5965-00-067-7393
NSN 5945-01-486-9991
NSN 6645-01-159-5173
NSN 5920-00-196-3631
NSN 5975-00-259-0267
NSN 6145-00-830-8210
NSN 5925-00-001-5748
NSN 6135-00-756-6149
NSN 6130-00-505-1165