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 6130-00-990-3655
NSN 5960-01-285-2152
NSN 5985-01-443-5681
NSN 5925-01-457-7605
NSN 5999-01-041-8665
NSN 4140-01-555-5483
NSN 6220-01-437-7667
NSN 6240-01-440-9778
NSN 5945-00-006-3533
NSN 6320-00-194-4252
NSN 4140-01-062-7244
NSN 5920-01-316-5284