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 5835-00-827-1904
NSN 6150-01-115-0610
NSN 5990-01-440-7135
NSN 5920-01-604-7719
NSN 5960-01-449-1310
NSN 5930-00-824-6172
NSN 5996-01-323-1500
NSN 5945-01-646-6842
NSN 6650-00-241-0970
NSN 6685-01-406-7302
NSN 5998-01-613-9345
NSN 5990-00-104-4903