Computer Weekly
Donald Willis's c.1948 experimental digital magnetic recording head
Donald Willis introduces the "first experimental digital magnetic recording head I made in 1948/9 at the Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge when I joined the team to develop magnetic recording for the EDSAC. This was for a magnetic drum, but this was not used as we switched to magnetic tape when it first became available."
Donald kept it out of simple nostalgia: "it was the first magnetic recording head I had made".
Donald Willis's c.1948 experimental digital magnetic recording head
Donald Willis introduces the "first experimental digital magnetic recording head I made in 1948/9 at the Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge when I joined the team to develop magnetic recording for the EDSAC. This was for a magnetic drum, but this was not used as we switched to magnetic tape when it first became available."
Donald kept it out of simple nostalgia: "it was the first magnetic recording head I had made".