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 5965-01-587-2366
NSN 6240-01-419-5270
NSN 5960-01-533-5162
NSN 4140-01-369-9921
NSN 7035-01-592-1559
NSN 5999-00-126-4735
NSN 5835-01-641-0073
NSN 5935-01-355-0663
NSN 5965-00-055-8013
NSN 5910-01-115-5058
NSN 5950-00-959-6938
NSN 2925-00-759-5465