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 5925-01-634-0664
NSN 6135-00-950-9380
NSN 6130-01-489-5661
NSN 6145-01-250-2006
NSN 5965-01-139-5472
NSN 6650-01-347-0148
NSN 6645-01-380-6111
NSN 6220-00-823-6688
NSN 5998-01-278-8488
NSN 6150-01-461-7615
NSN 5920-01-087-1952
NSN 5990-01-263-9364