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 6240-01-114-6349
NSN 5935-01-592-3820
NSN 5975-00-533-5053
NSN 6650-00-947-4380
NSN 4140-01-644-0927
NSN 6105-01-188-6659
NSN 6685-00-737-3838
NSN 6685-01-548-5419
NSN 6610-01-622-4326
NSN 6135-01-180-9611
NSN 7035-01-149-7202
NSN 6240-01-588-6013