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 5920-01-020-4090
NSN 5935-01-660-2349
NSN 5855-00-100-9003
NSN 6620-00-467-7414
NSN 2925-01-516-7940
NSN 5960-00-032-9715
NSN 6240-00-306-9214
NSN 5915-00-451-5665
NSN 6610-01-167-8747
NSN 5975-01-422-5102
NSN 5960-00-382-6012
NSN 6145-00-939-4968