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 6620-00-122-8136
NSN 5920-01-483-1537
NSN 5930-01-479-4378
NSN 6645-01-222-5468
NSN 2925-01-024-2662
NSN 7035-00-703-3535
NSN 5895-00-461-4858
NSN 5925-00-284-3726
NSN 5925-00-144-0482
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NSN 6240-01-280-3382
NSN 6135-01-586-9728