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 5985-00-288-6001
NSN 5930-01-027-8734
NSN 6220-01-011-0865
NSN 5996-01-400-3558
NSN 5999-00-192-0263
NSN 5910-01-304-4026
NSN 5855-01-173-0808
NSN 5965-01-353-0085
NSN 6240-01-316-3651
NSN 6240-01-630-2702
NSN 5930-00-997-8638
NSN 6650-01-399-8552