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 5895-01-385-3699
NSN 5835-01-312-4446
NSN 5835-01-303-6563
NSN 6150-00-418-8498
NSN 6645-01-503-2240
NSN 5996-00-111-1538
NSN 5985-01-437-8863
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NSN 5925-01-519-9251
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NSN 6650-01-056-4632
NSN 5996-00-177-8722