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 2925-00-790-6949
NSN 5835-00-632-8621
NSN 5985-00-976-3304
NSN 6145-01-392-0910
NSN 5915-01-379-2942
NSN 5895-00-724-5347
NSN 5960-01-100-5065
NSN 6650-00-610-3956
NSN 5920-00-246-5992
NSN 5935-01-607-2223
NSN 5996-00-636-4849
NSN 5895-01-570-6189