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 5905-00-546-9544
NSN 5905-01-481-8677
NSN 6685-00-925-3288
NSN 5925-00-004-6308
NSN 6145-01-296-4771
NSN 5996-01-460-8631
NSN 5985-01-521-3230
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NSN 6220-01-426-0447
NSN 5960-01-239-4314
NSN 5965-01-301-9566
NSN 6135-00-553-7995