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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 6240-01-580-3494
NSN 5999-01-471-0710
NSN 6645-00-179-8676
NSN 2925-01-033-8948
NSN 6685-01-222-8140
NSN 5999-01-042-1538
NSN 6105-00-911-6611
NSN 6240-01-133-1723
NSN 6650-00-446-5908
NSN 6645-01-347-4865
NSN 6320-01-054-3046
NSN 5920-00-138-7645