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 7035-01-378-5074
NSN 2925-01-317-1186
NSN 6645-00-451-6462
NSN 5999-00-476-1037
NSN 6135-01-056-4609
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 5960-00-565-0101
NSN 5930-00-643-9424
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NSN 6685-01-583-3066
NSN 6645-01-014-2849
NSN 6320-01-056-1164