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 5895-01-467-5419
NSN 6620-01-660-7873
NSN 6620-00-082-1525
NSN 6130-00-368-8698
NSN 6145-01-347-5991
NSN 5915-01-158-6864
NSN 6135-01-142-6456
NSN 5915-01-100-3729
NSN 5905-01-500-2710
NSN 6320-00-216-8779
NSN 6610-01-030-8220
NSN 5960-01-154-3719