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 6220-01-395-6909
NSN 6610-00-099-4096
NSN 5945-01-066-7025
NSN 5985-01-487-8453
NSN 5950-01-006-7867
NSN 6130-01-330-3347
NSN 6610-00-065-8881
NSN 5975-00-949-6415
NSN 5950-00-345-9509
NSN 6650-01-540-5157
NSN 6220-00-678-5913
NSN 6105-01-634-0322