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 7035-00-421-8710
NSN 5950-01-271-8986
NSN 5998-00-224-1924
NSN 5985-01-076-3966
NSN 6110-00-542-2202
NSN 5990-00-845-2864
NSN 6620-01-593-0817
NSN 5960-01-495-0859
NSN 5835-01-544-9670
NSN 5965-01-408-1053
NSN 6685-00-419-0643
NSN 5835-01-332-2867