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 4140-01-069-4576
NSN 6320-01-516-3050
NSN 5985-01-163-8097
NSN 6145-00-046-4568
NSN 5965-01-113-6654
NSN 6610-01-167-8747
NSN 5895-01-301-0308
NSN 6620-01-461-6427
NSN 5930-01-513-7726
NSN 5935-01-285-3472
NSN 6220-01-239-9889
NSN 5935-01-463-3326