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 6685-00-652-9419
NSN 6220-01-144-7175
NSN 5895-01-142-5765
NSN 7035-01-085-5955
NSN 5930-01-146-5546
NSN 6145-01-426-2931
NSN 7035-01-509-1959
NSN 5990-01-384-9747
NSN 6650-00-269-5000
NSN 6320-01-397-0399
NSN 5930-01-101-6144
NSN 5930-00-232-3806