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 2925-01-519-3221
NSN 5930-01-153-0779
NSN 5965-01-027-6554
NSN 5915-01-123-2637
NSN 5935-01-278-7925
NSN 7035-01-533-3269
NSN 6610-01-422-2376
NSN 5999-01-459-7565
NSN 6105-01-063-7704
NSN 6650-00-161-4122
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 5985-01-605-6949