Identifying a magnetic recording head

Paul Anderson useddec at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 14:20:31 CDT 2015


I was wondering about that.  It's been a long time and I might have slept
since then.


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us>
wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Kyle Owen wrote:
>
>  Any idea what this came out of? I was thinking some fixed head hard drive,
>> but I'm not sure. It looks new. The coil resistance is about 4 ohms and
>> from measuring it, seems to be center-tapped.
>>
>> http://imgur.com/a/mHZS4
>>
>
>    That's a head from an IBM drum, as used in the SAGE computer.
>
>
> Mike Loewen                             mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
> Old Technology                          http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
>


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