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 6320-01-262-8642
NSN 5895-01-218-0602
NSN 5905-01-063-7938
NSN 6645-01-557-4608
NSN 5960-00-525-1898
NSN 6105-01-518-1008
NSN 5990-01-485-0260
NSN 5910-01-513-1608
NSN 6105-01-393-9069
NSN 6650-01-415-5573
NSN 7035-01-542-7946
NSN 5999-01-067-9057