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 6135-01-272-4047
NSN 6320-01-116-3980
NSN 2925-01-302-8591
NSN 6105-00-633-3234
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NSN 6135-01-458-0631
NSN 6320-01-212-8749
NSN 6150-01-267-5488
NSN 5996-01-113-6362
NSN 5996-01-435-5547
NSN 6130-01-492-2307
NSN 6145-01-258-8575