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 6110-01-625-6100
NSN 6620-00-596-1951
NSN 6610-00-704-9754
NSN 5975-01-289-4794
NSN 6145-01-487-5589
NSN 5905-00-030-5557
NSN 5999-01-010-8152
NSN 6320-01-334-9840
NSN 6645-01-054-3969
NSN 5835-01-081-9345
NSN 5945-01-142-4477
NSN 6240-01-642-9552