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 6135-01-130-3145
NSN 5835-00-089-7205
NSN 6150-01-654-2933
NSN 5950-01-465-7126
NSN 5935-01-186-0804
NSN 5920-00-694-0483
NSN 5920-00-110-7796
NSN 5999-00-898-4590
NSN 7035-00-063-5245
NSN 6240-00-863-6105
NSN 5950-00-883-7396
NSN 6220-01-349-8669