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 4140-01-328-1948
NSN 5945-00-524-3396
NSN 6150-00-815-5125
NSN 5915-01-549-9291
NSN 6130-01-571-7932
NSN 5950-00-454-7384
NSN 6645-00-526-9476
NSN 6110-01-166-7220
NSN 6135-01-375-6724
NSN 5950-01-454-7677
NSN 5905-01-250-7253
NSN 6685-01-253-8747