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 6240-01-143-5523
NSN 5925-00-615-7071
NSN 5930-01-594-2767
NSN 5945-01-129-5680
NSN 4140-01-533-8424
NSN 5998-01-084-2900
NSN 6110-01-505-5245
NSN 5915-01-062-2103
NSN 5996-01-498-4336
NSN 5960-01-081-7745
NSN 6685-01-609-2109
NSN 5925-01-578-5271