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 5998-00-438-4845
NSN 5905-00-829-9902
NSN 6645-01-170-5402
NSN 5835-01-101-8382
NSN 6150-01-133-2017
NSN 5915-01-551-2175
NSN 5930-00-344-0297
NSN 5895-00-038-7408
NSN 6150-01-517-9132
NSN 6685-01-205-3834
NSN 5930-00-503-5663
NSN 6110-01-264-4319