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 4140-00-938-8664
NSN 6620-01-548-9993
NSN 5960-01-567-1096
NSN 5985-01-294-1163
NSN 6110-01-107-8566
NSN 5960-01-057-7096
NSN 5895-01-389-0677
NSN 6320-01-622-5493
NSN 6685-01-212-3972
NSN 6150-01-118-5302
NSN 6130-01-197-4348
NSN 5925-00-198-3689