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 5960-01-415-3574
NSN 5930-01-322-9525
NSN 6610-01-510-8687
NSN 4140-01-491-0683
NSN 6685-01-051-6467
NSN 5910-00-203-5373
NSN 5999-01-284-5688
NSN 5990-01-408-4188
NSN 6150-01-269-1734
NSN 5945-01-496-3931
NSN 6220-01-406-5351
NSN 5999-01-216-9023