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 5965-01-620-7739
NSN 6685-00-627-6102
NSN 5855-00-862-3345
NSN 5965-01-543-9490
NSN 5975-00-329-2465
NSN 5925-01-104-4893
NSN 5990-01-458-9576
NSN 6135-01-327-2092
NSN 5935-00-758-3585
NSN 6610-01-468-4745
NSN 5985-01-386-9846
NSN 2925-01-327-3069