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 5915-00-622-6762
NSN 5985-01-469-2243
NSN 5950-01-501-9036
NSN 5925-01-197-9899
NSN 5985-00-540-7712
NSN 5998-01-352-1911
NSN 5996-00-891-4036
NSN 6150-01-495-6748
NSN 6240-01-367-6561
NSN 6130-01-382-2532
NSN 5999-01-242-6954
NSN 4140-00-555-3856