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 6610-00-395-2574
NSN 5985-01-376-2106
NSN 5999-01-280-2200
NSN 5920-00-521-8331
NSN 7035-01-193-2667
NSN 5945-01-359-1974
NSN 5960-01-512-0233
NSN 6105-00-379-9011
NSN 5965-01-101-9094
NSN 6240-01-274-4237
NSN 6320-01-125-3361
NSN 5945-01-216-5239