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 5945-01-252-7631
NSN 5835-00-092-1136
NSN 6105-01-512-1140
NSN 5950-01-095-6893
NSN 5905-00-679-4721
NSN 6105-01-406-4264
NSN 6130-01-365-7338
NSN 5915-01-301-3221
NSN 6110-01-359-7866
NSN 5996-01-442-7481
NSN 2925-01-394-5650
NSN 7035-01-271-1643