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 6650-01-364-0299
NSN 5998-01-088-6785
NSN 6220-00-326-9144
NSN 5855-01-240-5470
NSN 7035-00-140-0474
NSN 5920-00-263-0622
NSN 5935-00-959-7727
NSN 6135-01-548-1423
NSN 6150-00-457-3770
NSN 6320-01-409-1388
NSN 6130-01-368-3305
NSN 5975-00-166-0614