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 5985-01-554-7789
NSN 5915-01-462-2124
NSN 5905-01-079-7235
NSN 7035-00-225-6499
NSN 6110-01-004-5451
NSN 5998-01-025-6764
NSN 5996-01-504-5876
NSN 5945-01-217-8690
NSN 6135-00-803-3012
NSN 6220-01-449-0590
NSN 2925-01-293-6266
NSN 6650-00-112-8361