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 6130-01-509-4171
NSN 6610-00-916-7462
NSN 6110-01-051-4196
NSN 6620-01-530-1229
NSN 5985-00-910-5111
NSN 5835-00-863-0959
NSN 5950-00-822-7926
NSN 6645-01-116-2037
NSN 5930-00-887-6397
NSN 6650-01-650-5181
NSN 5895-01-444-2768
NSN 6220-01-519-1678