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 5990-01-227-6526
NSN 5930-00-470-8146
NSN 6645-01-122-5965
NSN 5996-01-235-1643
NSN 5930-00-614-9237
NSN 6145-01-373-7769
NSN 6135-00-967-3112
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NSN 5915-01-014-7877
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NSN 6150-00-470-2702