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 5985-01-410-8737
NSN 6135-00-182-7008
NSN 6645-01-417-6302
NSN 5945-01-123-9006
NSN 6320-01-373-7171
NSN 5945-00-814-0603
NSN 7035-01-276-9016
NSN 2925-01-341-7423
NSN 5999-01-121-5114
NSN 6105-01-401-5361
NSN 6685-01-415-3888
NSN 5998-01-163-9064