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 5925-01-069-2201
NSN 4140-01-602-9257
NSN 5945-00-856-2927
NSN 6240-01-094-2280
NSN 5905-00-183-0858
NSN 6135-00-613-1068
NSN 6320-01-212-8749
NSN 5920-01-326-4247
NSN 6240-00-691-1397
NSN 7035-01-227-7492
NSN 5990-01-504-9265
NSN 5935-00-107-8287