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 6620-00-816-9755
NSN 6105-01-596-0865
NSN 6645-01-633-1852
NSN 5975-01-134-9680
NSN 6220-00-595-6954
NSN 2925-01-422-1542
NSN 6650-01-027-3632
NSN 6130-00-910-8762
NSN 6650-01-170-5440
NSN 6685-00-926-4337
NSN 5990-00-461-5372
NSN 6105-01-624-8539