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 5965-01-422-7638
NSN 5999-01-458-2906
NSN 6645-01-122-8306
NSN 5935-00-009-6728
NSN 5925-01-424-1710
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6135-01-389-5787
NSN 6150-00-916-2128
NSN 5985-01-441-3590
NSN 5985-01-032-7402
NSN 6685-01-572-3673
NSN 6620-01-537-9238