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 5965-00-845-1905
NSN 5925-00-940-3071
NSN 6145-01-498-6499
NSN 6135-01-313-8323
NSN 5950-01-422-2408
NSN 6145-01-264-1166
NSN 5999-01-427-3702
NSN 5935-01-435-4414
NSN 5915-00-911-9893
NSN 6220-01-288-0416
NSN 6105-01-555-4426
NSN 6685-00-269-3729