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 6135-00-194-9354
NSN 6685-00-682-4664
NSN 6620-00-932-4306
NSN 6620-01-572-8734
NSN 4140-00-200-0970
NSN 6220-00-369-5422
NSN 6240-01-174-5646
NSN 5998-01-602-1455
NSN 6220-01-297-5084
NSN 5920-01-017-5438
NSN 6135-00-112-8637
NSN 5835-00-711-3371