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 5915-01-323-9030
NSN 5930-01-467-6080
NSN 4140-01-478-4423
NSN 5930-01-077-1551
NSN 5915-00-816-9056
NSN 6220-01-437-9002
NSN 5905-00-401-7795
NSN 5910-01-657-9795
NSN 6685-01-179-7025
NSN 5998-00-840-1015
NSN 5996-01-442-3676
NSN 6650-00-578-6543