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 5855-01-205-7030
NSN 5925-01-440-7571
NSN 6610-00-680-8325
NSN 5905-00-529-6999
NSN 6105-01-190-0874
NSN 5996-01-482-5955
NSN 5945-00-087-8372
NSN 5975-00-355-6040
NSN 6645-01-320-0251
NSN 6105-01-014-8714
NSN 5998-01-411-5141
NSN 6320-01-631-7828