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 6135-01-400-2947
NSN 5935-01-416-3224
NSN 4140-00-842-1131
NSN 6685-01-207-0666
NSN 5965-01-258-8735
NSN 6145-00-278-0697
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NSN 5999-00-189-0772
NSN 7035-01-411-6062
NSN 5855-01-304-3064
NSN 2925-01-463-0594
NSN 6610-01-510-8687