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 6130-01-122-4993
NSN 6240-01-176-4359
NSN 5895-01-521-7892
NSN 5960-01-418-4875
NSN 6320-00-400-8042
NSN 7035-01-287-9817
NSN 6110-01-611-5321
NSN 5910-01-038-3942
NSN 5960-01-079-0660
NSN 6145-01-089-8854
NSN 6110-01-645-6204
NSN 6220-00-929-6069