Disk drive control: The early years

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-106

  Abramovitch, Daniel ^a   Franklin, Gene ^b  

^a AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer hardware; Disk drive control; Early history; Servomechanisms

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; ROTATING DISKS; SERVOMECHANISMS; SURVEYS;

ACCESSING DATA; CONTROL APPLICATIONS; CONTROL CHALLENGES; DISK DRIVE; DISK DRIVE SERVO; FEED-BACK LOOP; PERSISTENTLY EXCITING;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84945566200     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20020721-6-es-1901.01642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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