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 5855-01-348-6690
NSN 5920-01-048-0766
NSN 2925-00-063-5898
NSN 5960-00-204-7506
NSN 5915-00-991-4490
NSN 6150-01-026-1630
NSN 5999-01-520-7640
NSN 5985-01-300-4466
NSN 5945-01-290-4370
NSN 6240-00-034-5909
NSN 6220-01-275-7239
NSN 5895-01-261-9100