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 5920-00-918-1585
NSN 5905-01-206-9982
NSN 6610-01-160-2526
NSN 6220-01-557-7198
NSN 5965-01-125-2312
NSN 6645-01-620-0044
NSN 6130-01-514-3938
NSN 6220-00-443-6522
NSN 6145-01-479-0528
NSN 5925-01-104-4625
NSN 5905-01-164-1485
NSN 5920-01-204-0449