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 5985-01-372-5533
NSN 7035-01-512-2453
NSN 5915-01-553-2327
NSN 5930-01-336-5615
NSN 5945-01-367-2754
NSN 5975-00-723-0390
NSN 5920-01-137-0068
NSN 7035-01-034-3653
NSN 5930-01-199-8202
NSN 5990-00-814-9788
NSN 6145-01-443-1434
NSN 6240-01-068-3491