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 6620-00-459-4449
NSN 5998-01-173-0686
NSN 7035-01-485-0269
NSN 5965-00-215-5866
NSN 5855-01-081-7594
NSN 5990-01-379-7999
NSN 5930-01-360-0432
NSN 6650-01-187-9781
NSN 6110-01-496-5947
NSN 5895-00-235-8510
NSN 5985-01-101-7888
NSN 5935-01-435-4262