Yep, I could have easily removed the arm and photographed the actual pickup surface but I thought it looked more interesting this way up. I`d like to do a 1Gb Microdrive (If I could find a dead one and it came apart ok) but would have to borrow the ultra sharp 100mm Canon Macro for that AND add the tubes to get to about 5:1 if not more...
I have a full height 5.25" 5Mb MFM somewhere, I think it`s a Miniscribe (the 3.5s they made were awful, even worse than Seagate`s ST1xx for reliability) or a Quantum..
gblentz
14-Jan-2003 14:12
Technically, the actual magnetic read/write head is in the extreme right (as shown here) edge of the cream colored 'slider' on the reverse side. This is the tip of a Type 7 (if I recall correctly) Head Suspension Assembly manufactured from the early to late 90's. The HSA is the device that allows the slider to "fly" over the surface of the disk on a skin of air two millionths of an inch thick. To give an idea of scale, the cropped hole at the left edge is .032" in diameter).
I used to work for the place that made these... sorry, couldn't resist. :-)
Posted by AdamT..
taken with Canon D60 + F1.8 50mm Mk1 Prime lens at 1 second lit by halogen lighting from the side
Date 7/01/03
Very little post processing bar a slight amount of levels and 25% Unsharp mask
