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 5945-01-067-7955
NSN 5855-01-434-2825
NSN 6110-00-250-7913
NSN 6150-01-347-1041
NSN 6110-01-305-9253
NSN 6650-01-519-9165
NSN 5965-00-636-4926
NSN 6320-00-468-8421
NSN 5915-00-552-4355
NSN 5915-01-188-2603
NSN 5945-01-451-0949
NSN 6685-01-415-3117