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 5935-00-732-7982
NSN 5996-00-292-5394
NSN 5835-01-416-6449
NSN 7035-01-622-9809
NSN 6110-00-166-7865
NSN 6240-01-306-0069
NSN 5930-01-220-1213
NSN 5999-01-565-6169
NSN 6240-00-923-8944
NSN 6150-00-716-1603
NSN 5935-00-848-2705
NSN 6685-01-439-8027