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 5910-01-334-4684
NSN 5965-00-594-3115
NSN 5999-01-043-1013
NSN 6220-00-253-3836
NSN 6240-01-194-1602
NSN 6645-01-656-6416
NSN 6130-01-156-4153
NSN 5920-00-730-1332
NSN 5945-01-322-4908
NSN 6105-01-461-8426
NSN 6610-00-781-4198
NSN 5895-01-443-8884