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 5999-00-851-6787
NSN 5915-01-496-8425
NSN 2925-01-418-3296
NSN 5895-00-117-7793
NSN 6145-01-050-1187
NSN 2925-01-389-6874
NSN 6240-01-649-4420
NSN 6620-01-645-4148
NSN 5999-01-607-0289
NSN 5925-01-298-3422
NSN 6620-00-006-6418
NSN 6685-01-198-5776