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 5950-01-556-3064
NSN 5996-01-106-2763
NSN 6645-01-507-6366
NSN 6685-00-359-5569
NSN 5999-01-339-4617
NSN 6135-01-124-2376
NSN 5996-00-969-4216
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NSN 5996-01-601-1299
NSN 5996-01-102-8036