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 6110-01-528-7765
NSN 6620-01-535-6925
NSN 5910-01-467-6569
NSN 5930-00-451-5772
NSN 6130-00-295-2661
NSN 6650-01-268-8147
NSN 6130-00-358-4320
NSN 5985-00-351-5332
NSN 6145-00-771-3361
NSN 5930-01-088-6170
NSN 6220-01-142-9747
NSN 6240-01-343-2035