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Topic: Magnetic Disk

Related:
  Magnetic    Disk  
  Hard Disk    Magnetic Field  
  Disk Drive    Disk Space  
  Floppy Disk    Disk Operating System  
  Disk Image    Disk Format  
  Hard Disk Drive    Disk Copy  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Steve Jobs
Favorite possession(s):Windows computer,  DVD player,  Apple Computer
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  New Scientist
Favorite activity(s):Karaoke
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Favorite great thinker(s):Ampere
Interest(s):Astronomy,  Physics
Favorite movie(s):This Is Spinal Tap
Likes to wear:Vinyl,  Sunglasses
Favorite online activity(s):Downloading porn,  Finding warez
Ultimate fantasy(s):Finding genuinely free porn on the internet
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

These digitized voices are stored on magnetic disks, from which they can be instantaneously retrieved.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Floppy disks, magnetic tapes, and photographic negatives will not be protected in a standard fire resistant safe.
Hard disks are circular, they store data as 0s/1s using magnetic particles, and store them circularly in tracks, just like that old gramaphone record that you saw at your grandfather's attic.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

The disks are coated with a cobalt based alloy which has magnetic properties.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

Bernoulli disks use a floppy piece of magnetic material housed in a rigid cassette.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

The disks may also be stored online in an optical jukebox or copied to magnetic storage for high-speed access to frequently retrieved documents.
With magnetic disks, the block size impacts the percentage of wasted disk bandwidth attributed to seek and rotational delays.
The opposite magnetic fields in the disks Dl and D4 are parallel to K axis.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

LIMDOW disks and drives work on the same basic principle as a standard MO drive: the write surface is heated up and takes on a magnetic force applied from outside.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Magnetic devices like floppy disks, hard disks and some tape units all use the same underlying technology to achieve this.
Magnetic tapes, floppy disks, hard disks, Zip drives.
Magnetic disks can be replaced with CD-ROMs, and faster drives can be installed without impacting the application.
 
 
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