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 5990-01-417-4402
NSN 6620-00-728-3445
NSN 5965-00-937-6482
NSN 6685-01-025-6145
NSN 5960-01-495-0859
NSN 5945-01-477-9957
NSN 6320-01-039-5891
NSN 5999-01-501-5655
NSN 6130-01-152-6718
NSN 5950-00-038-8286
NSN 6620-00-959-6614
NSN 6150-00-181-9956