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 6145-01-623-3763
NSN 2925-00-411-0600
NSN 5895-01-648-4792
NSN 4140-00-937-8117
NSN 5990-01-433-7886
NSN 5990-00-886-3685
NSN 5920-01-233-4244
NSN 5999-01-335-7122
NSN 6110-01-032-8937
NSN 7035-01-643-5554
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NSN 6610-00-023-0076