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 5915-00-324-4874
NSN 5945-00-974-5330
NSN 6110-00-504-1097
NSN 6130-01-650-9115
NSN 6110-00-663-4054
NSN 5835-00-725-2087
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NSN 6105-01-014-0830
NSN 5925-01-397-4444
NSN 5910-01-317-0466
NSN 6220-01-012-2191
NSN 6135-00-170-8819