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 6650-00-680-9595
NSN 6130-01-353-0774
NSN 5910-01-327-1102
NSN 6110-00-613-1430
NSN 5835-01-097-5151
NSN 5945-00-859-2839
NSN 5925-00-622-2294
NSN 5915-00-717-7092
NSN 5855-01-281-6689
NSN 5975-00-541-8531
NSN 5965-01-431-8147
NSN 5935-01-420-8256