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 5945-01-334-9697
NSN 5915-01-358-6024
NSN 6320-00-583-3105
NSN 5998-00-858-4807
NSN 6685-01-571-7926
NSN 6145-01-443-2958
NSN 6150-01-004-4155
NSN 5895-01-384-2219
NSN 5835-00-888-9422
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NSN 6645-01-120-7135
NSN 6145-01-162-8691