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 6130-01-046-6776
NSN 5975-01-063-1440
NSN 5855-01-562-3132
NSN 6220-01-416-3852
NSN 6145-00-170-7947
NSN 5945-01-290-6662
NSN 6130-01-433-2215
NSN 6645-00-910-2722
NSN 5915-01-276-0629
NSN 5945-01-502-6921
NSN 6685-01-500-1810
NSN 5990-01-270-3209