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 6105-00-291-0154
NSN 5895-00-680-9784
NSN 5950-01-603-0101
NSN 5975-00-480-0114
NSN 5999-01-305-3066
NSN 6620-00-422-5866
NSN 5999-00-425-7783
NSN 2925-00-936-9344
NSN 5935-00-075-3712
NSN 6145-00-773-2026
NSN 5920-00-359-9771
NSN 5999-01-463-7443