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 7035-00-185-8683
NSN 5998-01-523-1752
NSN 5855-01-003-7102
NSN 5950-01-209-9555
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NSN 6130-01-059-3422
NSN 6320-01-531-4997
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NSN 4140-01-112-4966
NSN 5945-01-150-1018
NSN 6240-01-441-0784
NSN 6650-00-948-3647