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 6220-01-262-9167
NSN 5945-01-102-7186
NSN 5915-01-132-6577
NSN 5965-01-529-4417
NSN 6645-00-310-5839
NSN 6105-01-206-3992
NSN 5835-01-324-8739
NSN 5920-01-437-5623
NSN 5905-00-936-0552
NSN 2925-00-284-1534
NSN 6150-01-456-1437
NSN 5915-01-633-2641