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 6135-01-485-9082
NSN 5910-00-941-8992
NSN 5990-01-303-6110
NSN 5975-01-383-6264
NSN 5935-00-846-3093
NSN 5950-01-320-4406
NSN 5895-01-462-2650
NSN 5935-01-633-0148
NSN 6130-01-542-9235
NSN 4140-00-317-5014
NSN 6645-00-664-4665
NSN 5855-01-513-9601