> On Dec 7, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Paul Birkel via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Quoted from "DISK DRIVE CONTROL: THE EARLY YEARS" (Abramovitch & Franklin)
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3206778_A_brief_history_of_disk_dri
> ve_control
>
> "DEC came out with the 125 TPI RL01 disk drive in 1978,which was the first
> mass
> produced full sectored (embedded) servo drive on the market."
>
> Sounds to me like it was different, but in a good way?
>
> paul
A good way, definitely. Embedded servo enables the vastly higher densities we
have today, and also enables the use of all surfaces. A dedicated servo
surface is not a major hit on an RP06 that has 10 platters, but on a one or two
platter pack it's way too much overhead.
paul
