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 6320-00-931-4855
NSN 5998-01-065-3427
NSN 6135-01-142-2417
NSN 2925-01-108-3307
NSN 6620-00-796-2260
NSN 5915-00-226-6863
NSN 7035-01-474-6886
NSN 6150-00-227-2424
NSN 6130-01-144-2838
NSN 6105-00-753-8756
NSN 5925-01-599-3858
NSN 4140-01-148-3591