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 5990-00-822-9269
NSN 5985-00-101-0698
NSN 5975-01-131-6300
NSN 5910-01-323-7086
NSN 5920-00-903-7382
NSN 6110-01-531-5393
NSN 6320-01-527-0211
NSN 7035-01-151-0265
NSN 6320-01-631-7828
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NSN 4140-01-193-1577
NSN 6645-01-541-5696