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 6150-01-507-9536
NSN 5998-01-454-6006
NSN 5996-00-484-9196
NSN 6685-01-063-8297
NSN 6130-01-619-7612
NSN 5998-01-649-9657
NSN 5920-01-487-3700
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NSN 6610-00-290-0758
NSN 5998-01-302-4819
NSN 5975-00-982-9066
NSN 6135-01-322-4655