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 5999-01-469-0014
NSN 5950-00-150-4772
NSN 5930-00-897-6966
NSN 5905-00-729-8901
NSN 5915-01-003-3369
NSN 6105-00-541-8472
NSN 5905-01-188-9062
NSN 5905-01-366-2949
NSN 5835-01-339-0542
NSN 6650-00-138-8605
NSN 5925-01-351-4580
NSN 6110-01-494-6861