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 5996-01-141-6916
NSN 5935-01-610-8593
NSN 5935-01-076-8370
NSN 5999-01-258-9665
NSN 5998-01-111-3483
NSN 5985-01-186-4746
NSN 5996-00-130-5376
NSN 6130-01-328-6491
NSN 6650-01-058-0049
NSN 6240-00-150-6754
NSN 5985-00-661-2263
NSN 5960-01-449-1310