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 6685-01-201-7599
NSN 5996-01-373-3436
NSN 5920-01-339-7421
NSN 6130-00-083-3720
NSN 5990-01-224-8052
NSN 6685-00-839-1106
NSN 5965-01-231-9125
NSN 6150-01-494-0659
NSN 5935-01-544-9775
NSN 6110-01-349-2386
NSN 6240-01-454-5789
NSN 6650-01-339-5257