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 6220-01-105-9892
NSN 6685-01-641-6349
NSN 6320-01-332-7020
NSN 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 6620-00-010-8190
NSN 5855-00-763-2155
NSN 6220-00-498-4937
NSN 5925-00-394-6894
NSN 6620-00-485-4136
NSN 6110-01-163-2953
NSN 5895-01-409-2949
NSN 5990-01-480-9938