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 6145-01-054-5218
NSN 5895-00-149-1830
NSN 6685-00-069-9959
NSN 6650-01-485-5388
NSN 6145-00-956-6125
NSN 6610-01-234-9098
NSN 2925-01-238-9974
NSN 6645-01-418-8035
NSN 2925-01-127-0167
NSN 6150-00-205-6775
NSN 6620-00-546-6071
NSN 5930-01-516-3559