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 7035-01-403-2841
NSN 6685-01-100-1672
NSN 5950-00-654-9714
NSN 5998-01-444-8194
NSN 6645-01-348-5722
NSN 6220-01-152-2637
NSN 5925-01-588-1762
NSN 5935-00-276-9413
NSN 6320-00-779-5923
NSN 5925-01-442-8589
NSN 5985-01-168-8546
NSN 5935-01-026-3563