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 5920-01-491-3509
NSN 5998-01-634-0604
NSN 6240-01-426-2190
NSN 5985-01-023-3124
NSN 5905-01-583-1857
NSN 6650-01-616-5342
NSN 5990-01-414-7618
NSN 5905-01-584-7826
NSN 5999-01-463-2841
NSN 6610-00-946-6146
NSN 7035-01-585-2674
NSN 5975-01-550-9752