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 6110-01-154-2018
NSN 5925-01-587-9130
NSN 6110-01-291-0969
NSN 6610-01-028-7651
NSN 6130-00-243-2208
NSN 5855-01-203-4719
NSN 6610-00-000-0122
NSN 5895-01-451-2197
NSN 5985-00-694-5381
NSN 5998-00-492-2932
NSN 6150-00-520-5510
NSN 6110-01-102-6322