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 5990-01-548-5979
NSN 6110-01-106-5111
NSN 6620-01-553-6458
NSN 6620-01-259-5944
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NSN 2925-01-197-7864
NSN 5950-01-464-4196
NSN 6105-01-501-0524
NSN 5960-01-512-0233
NSN 5835-01-152-9483
NSN 5915-01-422-2014
NSN 5985-01-546-2026