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 6645-01-298-8837
NSN 5910-00-840-5455
NSN 7035-01-003-9142
NSN 6135-01-223-3869
NSN 5996-00-518-0460
NSN 6110-00-244-1209
NSN 5835-00-761-5615
NSN 6320-00-853-1920
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NSN 5990-00-834-1744
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NSN 6130-01-273-4287