Method and apparatus for mass data storage

Details Method and apparatus for mass data storage Method and apparatus for mass data storage

1995-08-24

1997-02-11

Ben, Loha

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Specific detail of information handling portion of system

Electrical modification or sensing of storage medium

369 4425, 369103, 250216, 250306, 250307, 374 6, 374120, G11B 900

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ABSTRACT:
The present invention discloses apparatus and method for decoding high density data encoded in a digital recording media as a series of tags comprising an information bit pattern including a tracking bit pattern. To this end, the invention preferably accesses the data by way of an interferometric near field microscope.

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