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 5935-00-729-5559
NSN 5998-00-825-2691
NSN 5998-01-379-9575
NSN 5930-00-488-4847
NSN 6105-00-202-2469
NSN 6645-01-534-3148
NSN 5915-00-262-4390
NSN 6650-01-090-0719
NSN 6220-00-403-6314
NSN 5920-00-116-9368
NSN 6110-01-062-9171
NSN 6130-01-600-6729