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 5905-01-535-7145
NSN 5915-00-636-9785
NSN 2925-00-936-9344
NSN 6650-01-322-6431
NSN 5975-00-989-2027
NSN 6110-00-100-4775
NSN 5950-00-731-9640
NSN 5910-00-149-3496
NSN 6685-01-354-4982
NSN 6220-01-491-1898
NSN 5975-01-501-3284
NSN 5910-01-127-0714