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 5910-00-126-9608
NSN 5915-01-447-1125
NSN 5990-00-403-9768
NSN 6220-00-394-5762
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NSN 6105-01-218-6205
NSN 6130-01-486-3226
NSN 6610-01-514-3683
NSN 5895-01-209-0750
NSN 6320-00-578-6898
NSN 6150-01-393-2977
NSN 5905-01-139-0087