Abstract:
A magnetic head reads and writes a plurality of information tracks, recorded as magnetization patterns on a magnetic recording medium, with two magnetic sheets mounted in a supporting frame. Complementary sheets each define a number of alternating three-sided and two-sided figures aligned along a subsequently formed head face. A gap-forming non-magnetic material is placed along one leg of each figure on one of the sheets, and the sheets are placed together, welded, encapsulated and ground to form a head. Preformed windings slip over one leg of each of the three-sided figures and preformed shielding cans surround the magnetic elements.
Abstract:
A magnetic transducer reads and writes electric signals recorded as tracks of magnetic manifestations on a magnetic medium moving relative to the transducer. The transducer is a high permeability magnetic sheet with a row of apertures along one edge of the sheet and a narrow slot connecting each aperture to the edge. Each aperture and slot corresponds to one track on the medium. An electric wire is threaded through the aperture for external connection. The edge of the sheet is adjacent the medium and at a fixed angle transverse the direction of relative motion. The angle and the thickness of the sheet determine the track width and, together with the total width of the sheet across the medium, the amount of information exchangeable with the medium.
Abstract:
An interface comprising normal asynchronous I/O interface hardware in combination with certain additional synchronizing connections is provided between a microcoded central processing unit (CPU) and a microcoded secondary processor (such as a floating point processor) for enabling these processors to function conjointly under common timing control as though they were natively attached to each other insofar as the execution of their respective microcodes is concerned. The secondary processor shares the normal I/O interface with the I/O devices for data transfer purposes in such fashion that data can be transferred between any of the I/O devices and the CPU in cycle steal mode when the secondary processor is internally occupied with executing an operation delegated to it by the central processor, and when the secondary processor is ready to store data which it has produced, I/O data transfers in cycle steal mode can be made concurrently with data transfers between the secondary processor and the CPU on a demand multiplex basis. Coordinating signals are passed between the processors at certain steps during the execution of their respective microcodes to maintain these microcodes in proper timed relationship with each other.