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 5985-00-337-3728
NSN 5975-00-928-6932
NSN 5920-00-236-1118
NSN 4140-01-343-1392
NSN 5935-01-309-0705
NSN 6620-01-369-3589
NSN 5855-00-962-5792
NSN 6135-01-364-2738
NSN 6240-01-014-5598
NSN 5895-00-250-0020
NSN 6130-01-349-4025
NSN 7035-01-319-7066