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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 5920-01-337-2343
NSN 5965-01-612-3799
NSN 5935-00-570-6119
NSN 6610-01-448-8904
NSN 6645-01-450-7271
NSN 4140-00-935-5360
NSN 5985-01-299-4811
NSN 4140-01-571-7457
NSN 5835-00-387-4759
NSN 5960-01-190-2996
NSN 6105-00-079-2409
NSN 5960-01-552-0862