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 6645-01-408-2745
NSN 5855-01-461-7726
NSN 5930-00-230-7492
NSN 5835-01-221-0451
NSN 5996-00-226-5364
NSN 5930-00-009-8921
NSN 5835-01-250-2939
NSN 6110-01-382-9158
NSN 4140-00-420-0251
NSN 6130-00-074-4112
NSN 6135-01-499-4068
NSN 6150-01-058-6933