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 6645-01-484-9847
NSN 5855-01-380-9950
NSN 5920-01-081-1096
NSN 6135-00-145-8884
NSN 5985-00-471-6077
NSN 6135-01-461-2915
NSN 5950-01-437-6045
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 6220-01-196-0332
NSN 5925-01-062-7973
NSN 6620-01-151-9175
NSN 6220-00-046-2333