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 2925-00-082-8219
NSN 6135-00-175-7132
NSN 5895-00-735-2273
NSN 5945-01-310-9443
NSN 6105-00-382-7670
NSN 5895-01-604-6989
NSN 5950-01-168-1897
NSN 5945-01-207-0825
NSN 2925-00-925-0545
NSN 6650-01-392-8020
NSN 7035-01-551-1240
NSN 5835-01-416-6455