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 5905-01-248-6193
NSN 6610-00-347-7860
NSN 5990-00-450-4628
NSN 5985-01-134-1627
NSN 5999-01-322-4346
NSN 5945-01-267-5294
NSN 6145-00-840-6685
NSN 5935-01-202-9359
NSN 5855-00-149-0766
NSN 5996-01-121-0113
NSN 6685-01-286-9555
NSN 5999-01-134-3451