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 5935-01-450-5700
NSN 5960-00-548-6528
NSN 5985-01-062-0675
NSN 6220-01-112-8855
NSN 6135-01-579-3534
NSN 5990-01-448-2751
NSN 6220-01-044-0708
NSN 6650-01-594-3888
NSN 5985-01-616-7286
NSN 6650-01-384-1657
NSN 5935-01-433-4719
NSN 5985-01-103-8770