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 6650-00-246-3751
NSN 5920-01-417-1928
NSN 5999-01-415-3691
NSN 5998-01-303-5874
NSN 5990-00-164-1198
NSN 6685-01-086-4715
NSN 5996-01-218-0522
NSN 4140-00-675-5888
NSN 5999-01-504-1818
NSN 7035-00-205-8739
NSN 6645-01-265-0549
NSN 6240-00-248-4281