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 6220-01-476-5119
NSN 6135-01-364-0667
NSN 6610-01-253-5112
NSN 2925-01-586-4574
NSN 5999-00-933-0498
NSN 5975-00-594-8857
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NSN 5855-01-658-4510
NSN 5905-01-287-0720
NSN 5915-01-468-3828
NSN 5835-01-584-8538
NSN 6685-01-252-1085