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 4140-01-328-1065
NSN 5910-01-450-7956
NSN 2925-01-381-5307
NSN 6650-00-007-4372
NSN 6620-00-827-1611
NSN 6220-00-857-2958
NSN 5996-01-343-0651
NSN 6685-01-245-8726
NSN 5950-00-902-7981
NSN 6150-01-164-0546
NSN 5920-00-882-3255
NSN 5930-00-260-5086