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 5996-00-321-5418
NSN 5835-01-632-6627
NSN 6240-01-030-1183
NSN 6105-01-328-8881
NSN 5915-00-617-2432
NSN 6220-01-265-1077
NSN 5996-01-023-7896
NSN 6685-01-472-2932
NSN 6105-01-462-1657
NSN 2925-00-221-4977
NSN 6620-01-044-3371
NSN 5935-00-813-5060