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Technology Stocks : Ampex Corp: Digital Storage
AMPX 11.98+3.4%Jan 28 3:59 PM EST
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To: Mary Beth Ford who wrote (1104)12/30/1996 1:26:00 PM
From: Glenn Perry   of 3256
 
From IBM Announcement: >>>The data bits themselves are recorded onto a thin film of a ultra-low-noise, four-component magnetic alloy that coats the aluminum disk. The alloy's composition and fabrication conditions are designed for very high bit density and very low magnetic noise -- critical advantages in reading the tiny bits. Another thin coating of a hard material protects the alloy film from contact with the recording head.<<<
This last sentence is what leads me to believe the thin coating could be the keepered layer, which would also act as protection to keep the recording head from contacting the film. The actual data is written on the film, the keepered layer concentrates the magnetic flux from the head. At this point, however, there is not enough information to draw any definitive conclusions. I'm just being optimistic, though, and long on Ampex, with or without keepered media.
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