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 6610-01-076-4800
NSN 6220-01-503-9193
NSN 5950-01-075-1884
NSN 6110-01-557-2887
NSN 5930-01-361-9027
NSN 6240-01-481-1796
NSN 5905-01-436-4624
NSN 6650-00-443-4292
NSN 5975-01-495-8568
NSN 6145-01-329-1812
NSN 2925-01-415-2140
NSN 6645-01-340-0892