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 5855-01-467-3802
NSN 6620-00-067-4946
NSN 6105-01-106-2631
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 6105-01-599-0845
NSN 6620-00-163-8793
NSN 6240-00-006-3725
NSN 4140-01-417-1850
NSN 5998-00-706-3016
NSN 7035-01-361-8821
NSN 6685-00-575-4647
NSN 6240-00-787-8329