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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1985
Wayne H Anderson, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
David E Larson, Anaheim, CA (US);
Mark R Reinhart, Bellflower, CA (US);
Media Systems Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An automatic flexible disk loader/copier apparatus includes a disk drive for reading data from and writing data onto flexible disks; an automatic mechanical loader for feeding disks from an input hopper into the disk drive and for discharging disks from the disk drive; a selectable format flexible disk controller which is dynamically reprogrammable to vary the format of the data written to the disks; and a computer which responds to the presence of write-protect indicators on the disks in the disk drive to load format, data and control information from the disks and which responds to the absence of write-protection indicators on the disks in the disk drive to write format and data to the disks.