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 6130-01-478-6762
NSN 5999-01-116-2198
NSN 6135-00-369-2368
NSN 6240-00-485-3128
NSN 5999-01-187-7218
NSN 5975-01-521-9128
NSN 4140-00-555-3856
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NSN 6135-01-384-7155
NSN 5915-01-213-3247
NSN 6135-01-301-8776
NSN 5855-00-797-8217