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To: Swamp Fox who wrote (1369)	12/4/1997 4:40:00 PM
From: Rainforest	Respond to of 17679

There are more of us sticking around than care to admit. Tom Coughlin's silicon valley talk is coming up in 10 days. So far, I have two orders for whatever it is that he may be willing to send me. Does anyone else want to know what he has to say? Speak now, or forever hold it: jkovacs@pacific.net. Midst all this moaning and groaning I cheer myself up by recalling Gus's posts about KM being a practical necessity as drives get up into the 10 gig range where they almost are now. Interesting to see what Coughlin thinks. My take on the recent jump (ha!) in price to 2 1/2 is that it may be related to the Korean bailout underpinning Samsung & the actual production of KMed platters. I think I've had too much eggnog. Hippy Holydoos everbody!

To: Swamp Fox who wrote (1369)	12/5/1997 4:32:00 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

I believe that this study was done with the keeper layer as an overlayer. Ampex presented the results of the use of the keeper layer as an underlayer at an IDEMA conference in Colorado a few months after Intermag 97 in April. Experimental Study of Recording Performance of Sendust and CoZrNb Keepered Thin Film Media IEEE Transactions on Magnetics Vol 33, No. 5, P3040 (Presented on the Intermag Conference, 1997) ABSTRACT. Significant improvements of recording performance such as enhanced read back signal and reduced pulse width of NiFe keepered thin film media have been reported [1] and modeled [2]. Keepered media may become even more attractive at ultra-high areal densities because of possible stabilization of recorded transitions from thermally-activated demagnetization...... ee.umn.edu Note: Full paper available in acrobat(PDF) format. Thanks to Sean for these nuggets of info. In 1968, the Ampex Corporation Research Department hired a recently graduated doctoral student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Robert P. Hunt. His initial assignment was quite simple: "Find something new and usful in magnetic storage technology." Shortly thereafter, Bob Hunt invented the magneto-resistive head (MRH). -- John C. Mallinson, "Magneto-Resistive Heads, Fundamentals and Applications" ee.umn.edu