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 5915-01-331-0971
NSN 6135-01-490-4422
NSN 5910-01-572-5441
NSN 2925-01-490-3884
NSN 5945-00-463-3383
NSN 5999-01-594-2394
NSN 4140-00-998-2911
NSN 5920-00-925-6661
NSN 5950-01-267-4958
NSN 6645-01-441-2762
NSN 5920-01-497-9528
NSN 5915-01-269-7972