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 5910-00-420-3429
NSN 5905-00-090-7078
NSN 7035-01-530-6707
NSN 5905-01-209-8877
NSN 5999-00-461-7685
NSN 2925-01-152-8618
NSN 5835-01-396-0640
NSN 5965-01-589-3968
NSN 5950-01-600-9981
NSN 6105-01-375-3158
NSN 6650-00-012-2430
NSN 5920-00-915-1206