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 6685-00-585-6228
NSN 5950-01-353-0235
NSN 5950-00-768-0607
NSN 5930-01-262-0764
NSN 5855-01-601-0085
NSN 5945-01-018-8330
NSN 6110-01-019-0811
NSN 5925-01-449-2188
NSN 6150-00-810-9605
NSN 6145-01-013-4068
NSN 5925-01-381-0614
NSN 4140-00-825-7506