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 6105-01-011-4535
NSN 5925-00-158-5297
NSN 6135-01-022-5427
NSN 6135-01-204-3882
NSN 5925-00-938-1266
NSN 6145-00-281-8161
NSN 5960-01-439-9517
NSN 5998-00-082-1077
NSN 5950-01-194-3080
NSN 5945-01-413-3854
NSN 6220-01-547-0271
NSN 5930-01-618-5408