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.
Classification: Electronic integrated circuits and microassembly parts
NSN 5965-01-596-2944
NSN 5990-01-352-5255
NSN 5895-01-329-5831
NSN 5998-00-106-8733
NSN 5998-01-312-2186
NSN 6645-01-345-6828
NSN 5950-00-599-7701
NSN 5996-01-006-2324
NSN 2925-00-964-7128
NSN 5945-01-630-9383
NSN 5960-01-536-6398
NSN 7035-01-459-8268