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 5935-01-373-2430
NSN 6650-01-113-6689
NSN 6145-01-117-0756
NSN 6610-01-210-7279
NSN 7035-00-349-8571
NSN 5935-00-799-8502
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NSN 5855-00-560-0110
NSN 5998-00-997-9315
NSN 5998-01-029-4263
NSN 6105-01-625-1169