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 5960-01-462-1864
NSN 5965-01-587-8853
NSN 5930-01-059-8611
NSN 5910-00-408-2181
NSN 6650-01-463-6495
NSN 5925-01-462-2209
NSN 5905-00-978-8551
NSN 5895-01-100-3644
NSN 5960-01-364-1318
NSN 5965-01-395-0104
NSN 5835-00-954-2833
NSN 6150-01-516-9807