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 5925-01-043-4336
NSN 6110-01-245-1316
NSN 5895-00-008-5256
NSN 5999-01-362-4642
NSN 6240-01-422-1878
NSN 6650-01-300-1668
NSN 5965-00-201-7479
NSN 6150-00-278-7070
NSN 5975-01-573-8695
NSN 6145-01-037-9291
NSN 5965-01-188-4507
NSN 6610-00-609-7198