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 6150-01-578-5762
NSN 6620-01-072-9372
NSN 6610-01-304-3226
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 5996-00-127-3325
NSN 5965-00-529-0602
NSN 6645-00-819-5045
NSN 6650-01-440-0767
NSN 5985-01-159-1017
NSN 5835-00-546-4898
NSN 6610-01-475-5723
NSN 6110-01-615-2925