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 5905-01-451-7391
NSN 6240-01-594-5703
NSN 5925-01-442-0650
NSN 6105-01-608-3974
NSN 5835-01-080-3678
NSN 7035-01-514-8522
NSN 5975-00-677-8908
NSN 5950-01-263-9564
NSN 6645-01-277-9297
NSN 5990-01-501-9094
NSN 4140-01-626-3590
NSN 5930-01-345-9987