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 6320-01-442-3428
NSN 5925-01-568-5248
NSN 5965-01-417-3211
NSN 6320-01-481-7322
NSN 5920-00-064-3523
NSN 5960-00-243-1086
NSN 5975-01-101-0466
NSN 6320-01-420-0340
NSN 6150-01-415-5568
NSN 5996-01-029-4196
NSN 6145-01-657-3777
NSN 5965-01-063-7894