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 6135-01-435-8451
NSN 5960-01-341-5198
NSN 5950-01-088-6770
NSN 6610-01-586-5221
NSN 5985-00-284-4856
NSN 5915-00-851-1208
NSN 5915-00-006-1255
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5990-00-332-1735
NSN 5935-01-476-7885
NSN 2925-00-610-9344
NSN 5905-00-879-1480