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 6320-01-519-8767
NSN 5975-01-568-7061
NSN 5930-01-382-4283
NSN 5996-01-550-3111
NSN 6240-01-474-5446
NSN 4140-00-300-8111
NSN 5960-01-443-3067
NSN 5835-01-364-6830
NSN 6240-01-633-9357
NSN 5960-01-624-1170
NSN 6150-01-261-2491
NSN 5950-01-129-4570