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 5915-01-588-4586
NSN 4140-01-382-9925
NSN 6685-01-439-4248
NSN 5996-00-763-6245
NSN 5835-00-902-8680
NSN 5985-01-499-1399
NSN 2925-01-368-5773
NSN 6650-01-386-5787
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NSN 6130-01-605-1965
NSN 5910-01-423-8223
NSN 5996-01-487-3733