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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1986
Ross W Bishop, Longmont, CO (US);
Arthur E Moxley, Longmont, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of making read-only magnetic recording media by the use of photolithographic/photoresist techniques, and the vacuum deposition of discrete bits of a high coercivity metal, followed by magnetization of said metal. A nonmagnetic substrate is covered by a layer of photoresist and a layer of high coercivity magnetic material. Selective light-pattern exposure of the resist, followed by layer-removal-procedures, cause the substrate to be covered by islands of hard magnetic material, in the pattern of a desired data track. The substrate is then subjected to the influence of a steady-state magnetic field in order to convert the metal islands into a read-only data pattern which can be read by a magnetic head. A floppy disk of this type is used to stress-test the head placement of floppy disk drives.