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 5996-01-351-6485
NSN 5990-01-503-0194
NSN 6130-01-573-5057
NSN 5835-01-455-3380
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NSN 5925-00-411-0843
NSN 5998-01-462-2625
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NSN 5855-00-832-9341
NSN 5985-01-605-0958
NSN 5895-00-130-3364
NSN 7035-01-571-7504