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 6220-01-517-7186
NSN 5999-00-174-5886
NSN 5920-00-650-6562
NSN 5985-01-608-5078
NSN 5999-01-539-3248
NSN 4140-01-411-6666
NSN 5930-01-499-8531
NSN 5895-01-295-4910
NSN 6650-01-333-7918
NSN 6105-00-549-2668
NSN 5835-00-888-9422
NSN 5960-00-529-2704