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 6135-01-381-4675
NSN 5935-01-252-6066
NSN 5895-01-491-3817
NSN 5920-01-620-8490
NSN 5915-01-355-5111
NSN 6645-00-209-5778
NSN 6150-01-482-8617
NSN 6685-00-374-0482
NSN 5930-01-440-7272
NSN 5999-00-170-9157
NSN 5905-00-115-0910
NSN 5930-00-840-5804