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 6150-01-531-1367
NSN 5998-00-784-3263
NSN 5935-00-239-2555
NSN 6240-01-519-0507
NSN 5965-00-775-6496
NSN 7035-00-275-5604
NSN 2925-00-149-0760
NSN 5835-01-441-4746
NSN 5925-00-905-8196
NSN 5950-00-544-5546
NSN 5910-01-210-8382
NSN 5945-01-566-6991