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Information storage systems

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GB2422243B
GB2422243B GB0604803A GB0604803A GB2422243B GB 2422243 B GB2422243 B GB 2422243B GB 0604803 A GB0604803 A GB 0604803A GB 0604803 A GB0604803 A GB 0604803A GB 2422243 B GB2422243 B GB 2422243B
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information storage
storage systems
systems
information
storage
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Charles Frederick James Barnes
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GBGB0224779.9A GB0224779D0 (en) 2002-10-24 2002-10-24 Information storage system
GB0510590A GB2411285B (en) 2002-10-24 2003-10-24 Information storage systems

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US4636893A (en) * 1985-09-06 1987-01-13 Eastman Kodak Company Piezoelectric driven mass storage
US4903151A (en) * 1986-01-23 1990-02-20 Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation Head positioning system for positioning a multiple head with respect to data and servo trasks of a recording medium
US5212680A (en) * 1991-10-10 1993-05-18 International Business Machines Corporation Mass storage device employing array of transducers "cocked" in relation to reciprocal movement axis
US5739975A (en) * 1994-03-18 1998-04-14 Cartesian Data, Inc. Memory storage module for staring and accessing magnetically encoded data on linear tracks
US6181524B1 (en) * 1992-06-17 2001-01-30 Hitachi, Ltd. Magnetic disk apparatus with slider and slider supporting mechanism including flexible section integrally formed from same material
US20010019532A1 (en) * 1997-08-08 2001-09-06 Sony Corporation Method of and apparatus for recording/reproducing an information signal, recording/reproducing head device, memory medium, and head element
EP1381031A1 (en) * 2002-07-12 2004-01-14 O-Mass AS Matrix of integrated magnetic recording heads of thin film technology
WO2004032115A1 (en) * 2002-10-03 2004-04-15 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Storage system using electromagnetic array

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US4636893A (en) * 1985-09-06 1987-01-13 Eastman Kodak Company Piezoelectric driven mass storage
US4903151A (en) * 1986-01-23 1990-02-20 Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation Head positioning system for positioning a multiple head with respect to data and servo trasks of a recording medium
US5212680A (en) * 1991-10-10 1993-05-18 International Business Machines Corporation Mass storage device employing array of transducers "cocked" in relation to reciprocal movement axis
US6181524B1 (en) * 1992-06-17 2001-01-30 Hitachi, Ltd. Magnetic disk apparatus with slider and slider supporting mechanism including flexible section integrally formed from same material
US5739975A (en) * 1994-03-18 1998-04-14 Cartesian Data, Inc. Memory storage module for staring and accessing magnetically encoded data on linear tracks
US20010019532A1 (en) * 1997-08-08 2001-09-06 Sony Corporation Method of and apparatus for recording/reproducing an information signal, recording/reproducing head device, memory medium, and head element
EP1381031A1 (en) * 2002-07-12 2004-01-14 O-Mass AS Matrix of integrated magnetic recording heads of thin film technology
WO2004032115A1 (en) * 2002-10-03 2004-04-15 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Storage system using electromagnetic array

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