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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 4140-01-367-3108
NSN 6610-01-518-1264
NSN 5930-01-603-2624
NSN 6220-01-544-4164
NSN 5930-00-983-5488
NSN 6145-01-099-0448
NSN 5990-01-116-2181
NSN 5950-01-446-2984
NSN 5915-01-051-1846
NSN 6620-00-244-0965
NSN 6685-01-630-3457
NSN 5905-00-842-1982