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 7035-01-432-2424
NSN 6620-00-572-8787
NSN 5835-00-155-1379
NSN 5999-01-516-4934
NSN 5835-01-020-5650
NSN 5999-01-297-7660
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NSN 5905-01-439-5347
NSN 6240-00-818-1364
NSN 6105-01-073-4953
NSN 6130-00-094-5987
NSN 5855-00-198-3197