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 6105-01-601-0572
NSN 5930-01-339-9995
NSN 5895-01-250-4498
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NSN 6650-01-392-8086
NSN 6240-01-373-2686
NSN 5920-01-159-7949
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NSN 5985-01-368-3913
NSN 5950-00-551-1306
NSN 4140-00-575-6586