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 5935-01-448-2325
NSN 5996-01-628-8624
NSN 5855-01-522-6242
NSN 5835-01-559-3824
NSN 6150-01-339-3745
NSN 6685-01-362-4284
NSN 6650-00-599-9509
NSN 6645-00-898-4316
NSN 6650-01-552-9344
NSN 5925-00-280-2273
NSN 5990-00-442-7603
NSN 6650-01-195-3957