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 5998-00-004-4483
NSN 6130-01-108-6197
NSN 5895-01-415-1245
NSN 7035-01-082-0311
NSN 7035-00-295-0451
NSN 5855-01-211-2437
NSN 5895-00-170-4568
NSN 5945-01-171-9065
NSN 5990-00-831-5359
NSN 5990-01-578-5382
NSN 5999-00-688-9065
NSN 6645-00-279-1777