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 2925-01-318-8853
NSN 5905-01-344-2625
NSN 5990-00-513-5328
NSN 5935-00-595-5899
NSN 6620-01-217-3216
NSN 6320-01-543-3238
NSN 6105-00-639-6857
NSN 7035-01-027-2259
NSN 5965-01-519-1929
NSN 5998-00-916-5310
NSN 2925-00-169-3775
NSN 6110-01-195-2764