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 5835-01-123-8305
NSN 5835-01-581-9433
NSN 6645-00-226-2270
NSN 5999-00-443-5829
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NSN 5835-00-334-6556
NSN 5925-00-150-1072
NSN 6650-01-381-7296
NSN 6610-01-044-1860
NSN 5905-01-408-5991
NSN 6110-01-656-8136
NSN 6650-01-615-5374