In 1971 the first VIII came 32nd at Reading Head, only 4 seconds behind the'invincible'Durham which apparently led them the make seven changes before HORR . Unfortunately these changes seem to have made the difference.
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IBM, with a consortium of small companies, got $ 5 million over three years from the Commerce Department to develop new data reading heads for computer hard disks that are 100 times better than current readers.
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Having extracted the head of a floppy disk ( the plastic part protecting it ) from a floppy drive, could i have accidentally damaged the reading head and corrupt media i'd like to recover using this drive?
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Today, a more refined version of the writing and reading heads that descended from that research " fly " over the disk surface at a height of about 150 angstroms ( an angstrom is roughly the width of a single hydrogen atom ).
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This, in turn, allows dynamic head repositioning, whereby, when reading a faulty sector, the reading head is deliberately moved backwards and forwards many times, by varying amounts, in the hope that each time it returns to the sector, it may come to rest in a slightly different position.
