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 6150-01-416-8294
NSN 5985-01-317-2916
NSN 5925-01-045-2119
NSN 5915-00-539-4849
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NSN 5835-01-424-0054
NSN 5950-01-449-1933
NSN 7035-01-335-7536
NSN 5905-00-582-7031
NSN 6220-01-011-0865
NSN 6610-00-003-4986
NSN 2925-00-159-9003