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 4140-01-615-0640
NSN 5910-00-139-6728
NSN 5945-01-534-4724
NSN 6105-01-184-3066
NSN 6150-01-186-6634
NSN 5990-01-054-4255
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NSN 6135-01-463-2445
NSN 6645-01-386-6311
NSN 6105-01-609-2935