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 5920-01-482-4750
NSN 5985-01-187-6304
NSN 5925-00-118-1098
NSN 6150-01-601-1806
NSN 6685-01-509-4699
NSN 5905-00-514-1984
NSN 6110-00-518-2998
NSN 4140-01-199-9771
NSN 6610-01-534-2147
NSN 5935-01-102-4764
NSN 5905-00-723-9802
NSN 6150-00-787-0369