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 5950-01-423-3101
NSN 6650-00-399-2005
NSN 5835-00-905-7165
NSN 5975-01-505-7879
NSN 6150-00-244-2242
NSN 5996-01-464-0548
NSN 6610-01-018-4428
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NSN 6645-00-763-4852
NSN 5996-00-179-3203
NSN 6110-01-400-4207
NSN 6650-01-087-8993