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 5996-00-754-2840
NSN 5998-01-231-3236
NSN 6145-01-197-9558
NSN 5985-01-004-2079
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NSN 5965-01-030-7253
NSN 5990-01-093-3087
NSN 5930-01-572-6243
NSN 6685-00-674-2396
NSN 6135-01-238-2878
NSN 5985-01-575-4323
NSN 2925-00-912-3993