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.
NSN 5935-01-100-4075
NSN 5915-01-048-2817
NSN 5930-01-366-1955
NSN 5960-01-449-1310
NSN 5985-01-324-4028
NSN 2925-00-428-6349
NSN 5930-00-292-1089
NSN 6110-00-269-2696
NSN 5835-00-475-9271
NSN 6105-01-295-9970
NSN 6240-00-316-3167
NSN 5990-00-026-4420