Microdrive mechanical design considerations

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 47-51

  Albrecht, T R ^a   Albrecht, D W ^b   Kuroki, K ^b   Reiley, T C ^a   Takahashi, K ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM JAPAN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disk drive; Microdrive

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006141086     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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