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 5895-01-573-7542
NSN 5905-01-436-0613
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 4140-01-606-1883
NSN 6645-00-089-8842
NSN 5910-01-406-4317
NSN 6240-00-409-8670
NSN 5910-00-497-0706
NSN 6135-01-163-0332
NSN 5835-01-397-2865
NSN 5965-01-566-0099
NSN 6135-00-935-8769