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 5910-01-156-0752
NSN 6130-00-618-2712
NSN 5920-01-607-8055
NSN 5945-00-703-4908
NSN 5905-00-104-7235
NSN 6135-01-116-3385
NSN 5835-01-277-0710
NSN 6130-01-095-3169
NSN 5985-01-043-3214
NSN 6645-01-357-0618
NSN 5960-01-142-1995
NSN 6145-01-185-7803