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 6620-01-067-9285
NSN 5996-01-212-9866
NSN 6145-01-027-2055
NSN 6150-00-100-4757
NSN 5925-01-280-5451
NSN 6620-01-204-1182
NSN 6320-01-562-1599
NSN 6110-00-999-6142
NSN 6620-01-073-6365
NSN 6220-01-442-5699
NSN 5915-00-548-4381
NSN 6650-01-083-3707