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 5985-01-656-3243
NSN 5920-01-593-7517
NSN 6320-01-631-7828
NSN 5925-01-123-7852
NSN 5975-00-477-7197
NSN 5925-01-441-2740
NSN 5925-01-509-9040
NSN 7035-01-337-8128
NSN 5999-01-502-3645
NSN 5915-01-614-5717
NSN 5945-00-593-1736
NSN 5975-01-475-3814