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 5915-00-892-3011
NSN 4140-01-497-2716
NSN 4140-01-374-5831
NSN 5950-01-570-4438
NSN 5835-01-370-8912
NSN 5998-00-970-6473
NSN 5920-01-620-0901
NSN 5855-01-068-3683
NSN 6150-01-258-8412
NSN 5960-01-360-4107
NSN 5975-01-104-8120
NSN 5905-00-533-7287