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 5990-00-756-2555
NSN 7035-01-026-1171
NSN 5960-01-148-2297
NSN 6685-01-379-9409
NSN 6105-01-515-4645
NSN 5985-01-548-6544
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NSN 5855-01-207-5616
NSN 6105-01-519-5222
NSN 5910-00-385-1149
NSN 6620-01-349-8685
NSN 5945-01-151-0693