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 5975-01-535-5734
NSN 6620-00-936-3463
NSN 5895-01-536-7404
NSN 5990-01-504-9265
NSN 7035-00-973-3331
NSN 6240-01-204-1918
NSN 5895-01-064-5082
NSN 6650-01-131-7233
NSN 5960-01-632-6576
NSN 5965-01-249-6349
NSN 6105-01-422-8139
NSN 7035-01-449-4038