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 5960-01-342-1961
NSN 5998-01-322-5635
NSN 6145-00-952-2872
NSN 6685-01-005-2874
NSN 5915-00-494-0581
NSN 6150-01-394-4154
NSN 6610-01-463-8866
NSN 5930-00-893-0343
NSN 6320-01-119-3935
NSN 6105-00-356-1955
NSN 7035-01-201-6329
NSN 5925-00-952-0618