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To: digger who wrote (3927)	12/2/1998 8:11:00 AM
From: Glenn Perry	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Here's a link to the new Keepered Media patent: 208.201.146.99 "The flexible, particulate magnetic media may be used in tape or flexible disc formats." "The present invention relates to magnetic recording and reproducing systems, and in particular to a magnetic tape recording and reproducing system having a keepered particulate magnetic storage medium." Thanks, Digger, for digging up new info and keeping up with Keepered media. Keepered media for DST. Cool. This could help keep Ampex at the forefront of high density storage, if it hasn't already been incorporated on the new quad-density drives. Here's what I like best about this patent. They "covered their ass". "It is contemplated that other layers may be used, including inert non-magnetic layers that are positioned to provide physical integrity to the entire multilayer combination." "Although the present invention has been shown and described with respect to preferred embodiments thereof, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various other changes, omissions and additions to the form and detail thereof may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention." While Ampex may not have been successful in getting disk drive manufacturers to adapt to keepered media, perhaps there are a few tape drive manufacturers who would like to use this technology. It is quite possible they could license use of this patent to others. Does anyone know if this would help the signal-to-noise ratio of audio recording tape?