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 6105-00-465-2785
NSN 6130-00-471-1116
NSN 5996-01-029-2904
NSN 6620-00-464-6105
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NSN 6620-01-333-7014
NSN 5935-01-036-9492
NSN 6610-00-049-6497
NSN 6320-00-194-4252
NSN 6685-01-021-3064
NSN 6220-01-125-8032
NSN 5985-01-656-2420