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 6105-00-185-1579
NSN 5835-01-368-4015
NSN 6650-01-514-0240
NSN 6130-01-572-7872
NSN 6130-01-422-8736
NSN 5985-00-816-7913
NSN 5905-01-300-4967
NSN 5925-01-025-7008
NSN 7035-01-081-9058
NSN 2925-01-446-6976
NSN 5960-00-515-7366
NSN 6240-01-008-5267