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 5835-01-408-7576
NSN 6240-00-082-1142
NSN 7035-00-946-2642
NSN 6650-01-174-4991
NSN 5945-00-784-5880
NSN 6320-01-624-0193
NSN 5990-01-197-6922
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NSN 5895-01-517-2318
NSN 5996-01-227-2555
NSN 5950-00-820-4319
NSN 6320-01-459-6992