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 6135-01-482-7901
NSN 5996-00-823-9164
NSN 6320-01-097-5347
NSN 5945-00-762-5838
NSN 5895-00-169-3748
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NSN 6145-01-430-2784
NSN 5835-01-249-0275
NSN 6110-01-253-3278