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 6105-01-139-6266
NSN 5930-01-322-9525
NSN 5996-00-841-5534
NSN 6105-01-416-7484
NSN 6135-00-942-7970
NSN 6610-01-430-5373
NSN 5925-00-819-3985
NSN 5920-01-104-6198
NSN 4140-00-399-2416
NSN 5999-01-329-6284
NSN 5835-01-011-4366
NSN 5945-01-655-8596