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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1981
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul A Gilovich, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microcomputer Systems Corp., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 84 ; 360 98 ; 360106 ; 360107 ; 36013024 ;
Abstract
A drive assembly for driving disc, tape or disc-tape hybrid apparatus. A tape apparatus for mass storage in which rotating heads record longitudinal adjacent tracks of predetermined length on a tape to form blocks of recorded data. The tape is advanced to write or read a plurality of blocks. Also provided is a hybrid apparatus which combines the tape apparatus and disc apparatus in a unit which is driven from a common drive assembly.