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 6685-00-127-0934
NSN 5895-01-441-4818
NSN 5925-00-163-6982
NSN 7035-01-098-5474
NSN 5910-01-521-6033
NSN 5999-01-108-8201
NSN 5996-01-069-2915
NSN 5999-00-753-7450
NSN 5996-00-222-4930
NSN 6150-00-690-1145
NSN 6320-00-553-8427
NSN 6685-00-889-1579