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 2925-00-099-4030
NSN 5999-01-504-7736
NSN 5999-01-054-9947
NSN 6110-01-471-3182
NSN 6610-00-877-1029
NSN 4140-01-086-6536
NSN 5996-00-064-1220
NSN 5975-01-658-7409
NSN 6220-01-634-0660
NSN 5945-01-487-8536
NSN 5895-01-361-4993
NSN 5945-01-213-0233