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 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 5925-00-426-4754
NSN 5920-01-032-2133
NSN 5920-00-647-3467
NSN 4140-00-169-6428
NSN 5950-01-477-8869
NSN 6135-00-452-2266
NSN 6110-01-614-4976
NSN 5935-01-121-7645
NSN 6240-01-444-6252
NSN 6130-00-078-3824
NSN 6105-00-618-4401