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 7035-01-245-7973
NSN 5950-01-290-7756
NSN 5920-01-449-2172
NSN 5930-01-211-6363
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6145-00-406-4471
NSN 5915-00-106-1676
NSN 7035-01-581-0676
NSN 5915-01-441-2238
NSN 5855-01-641-5639
NSN 5945-01-519-3283
NSN 5915-00-232-3387