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 5945-00-182-7384
NSN 6130-01-209-2620
NSN 5960-00-244-8044
NSN 5915-00-201-1048
NSN 5996-00-253-3788
NSN 5935-00-781-7409
NSN 6145-01-634-0388
NSN 5855-01-649-7398
NSN 5950-01-623-0457
NSN 5975-01-614-9003
NSN 5835-00-251-9138
NSN 5935-00-407-3852