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 6320-00-695-3891
NSN 5895-01-026-3583
NSN 5910-01-449-1055
NSN 6145-01-472-3796
NSN 6240-01-105-1399
NSN 5925-01-030-3086
NSN 6620-01-272-4746
NSN 5950-01-310-3713
NSN 7035-00-417-2967
NSN 5855-00-337-3679
NSN 5950-00-556-9925
NSN 5925-01-353-9106