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 5990-01-272-4091
NSN 6110-01-525-8027
NSN 7035-00-205-8739
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NSN 5930-00-699-5712
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NSN 5996-01-106-2763
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NSN 5990-01-100-1840
NSN 5998-00-774-3192
NSN 5935-01-544-3676