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 6645-00-959-6502
NSN 5960-00-422-3197
NSN 5945-01-607-0980
NSN 5975-01-124-4269
NSN 5975-01-475-9383
NSN 5925-00-427-9930
NSN 6220-01-567-0793
NSN 5910-00-794-6651
NSN 5910-00-039-9074
NSN 6645-01-028-2186
NSN 5915-01-398-1617
NSN 5985-00-060-2231