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 6610-01-456-1166
NSN 5855-00-323-0967
NSN 6685-01-436-6293
NSN 6145-00-181-9622
NSN 5945-00-488-8654
NSN 5925-01-124-2441
NSN 5835-01-219-0586
NSN 5998-00-410-9238
NSN 5895-01-006-6248
NSN 2925-00-422-5159
NSN 6645-01-508-7582
NSN 2925-01-257-6225