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 5915-01-086-2283
NSN 6110-01-399-4899
NSN 6620-01-474-4951
NSN 5895-01-580-6434
NSN 2925-00-005-1618
NSN 6620-01-026-0346
NSN 5920-01-567-4634
NSN 5920-01-659-6305
NSN 5930-01-135-4923
NSN 5835-00-012-1846
NSN 6685-01-113-7552
NSN 4140-00-307-2732