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 5975-00-156-3347
NSN 4140-01-306-2675
NSN 5855-01-236-9645
NSN 5925-01-060-3403
NSN 6150-01-376-9834
NSN 5965-01-278-2107
NSN 4140-00-081-6144
NSN 6620-01-151-3986
NSN 5950-01-522-4324
NSN 5945-00-874-3474
NSN 5910-00-779-9823
NSN 6685-01-129-5962