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 6135-00-826-4798
NSN 5855-01-257-2636
NSN 5910-00-322-3408
NSN 5975-00-281-1001
NSN 6620-00-481-4210
NSN 6610-01-285-4673
NSN 6135-00-196-5267
NSN 5920-00-901-7419
NSN 6145-00-964-4505
NSN 5895-01-643-1187
NSN 7035-00-155-9513
NSN 5905-01-219-7785