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 6620-01-117-7303
NSN 2925-01-100-3694
NSN 5920-01-586-5328
NSN 6610-01-571-8038
NSN 4140-01-447-3141
NSN 5835-00-447-1924
NSN 5960-01-023-1178
NSN 6685-01-458-1434
NSN 6685-01-492-5340
NSN 5985-01-207-7883
NSN 5960-01-300-3506
NSN 5950-01-507-6954