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 7035-01-146-7096
NSN 5965-00-752-5823
NSN 2925-01-587-3956
NSN 5925-01-093-4380
NSN 5965-01-392-6511
NSN 5905-01-600-0179
NSN 6320-01-335-8336
NSN 5996-00-444-9832
NSN 5925-00-280-2273
NSN 5910-00-158-5389
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 5998-01-495-3777