Disk drive for communicating with removable media that include media type identification information

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5363255
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08031955

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A diskette comprising a jacket, a liner material disposed within said jacket, a flat circular media having a magnetic coating on both sides disposed within said liner material, a hub attached at the center of said media, a plurality of optical positioning tracks on at least one of said sides of said media, and a media type code optically embossed on at least one of said sides of said media. The media type code contains information about the physical properties of the particular diskette that will allow a disk drive unit to auto-configure itself to allow optimum data communication and performance.

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CREDIT MANAGERS ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA40 EAST VERDUGO AVENUE BURBANK CA 91502

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ivers, Michael L San Jose, CA 2 62
Otis, Jr Alton B San Francisco, CA 15 662
Rose, Andrew M Mountain View, CA 20 294

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