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 6145-01-139-5172
NSN 2925-01-577-0004
NSN 5905-01-284-5640
NSN 6135-01-025-8109
NSN 5930-00-255-0892
NSN 5930-01-242-7307
NSN 5985-00-368-7198
NSN 5935-00-588-0857
NSN 5855-01-389-8884
NSN 5998-01-110-8122
NSN 6240-00-383-7668
NSN 5998-01-284-2628