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 6150-00-185-3293
NSN 5910-01-390-1480
NSN 5925-01-619-2942
NSN 5905-00-245-3773
NSN 6145-00-334-5192
NSN 6240-01-024-3917
NSN 6610-00-873-6461
NSN 6105-01-095-3087
NSN 5985-00-150-9398
NSN 7035-00-403-5340
NSN 5960-01-322-4341
NSN 5996-00-921-7046