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 6645-01-544-3581
NSN 5999-01-205-0734
NSN 6110-00-288-4179
NSN 6645-00-498-6869
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NSN 6685-00-458-8001
NSN 5960-00-529-2704
NSN 6105-01-171-4722
NSN 6610-01-394-4944
NSN 6645-01-528-2860
NSN 6645-01-568-7517
NSN 5998-01-362-8842