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 5965-01-100-1195
NSN 6610-01-371-3006
NSN 2925-01-519-3221
NSN 6150-01-146-9661
NSN 6240-01-220-2969
NSN 6150-00-256-7957
NSN 5965-00-193-2406
NSN 5925-00-185-4020
NSN 6610-00-330-6634
NSN 4140-01-122-2581
NSN 5985-01-400-1230
NSN 5985-01-340-5777