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A brief history of hard drives

by ZDNet Author  |  July 20, 2006 2:49pm PDT  |  Image 4 of 10

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Magic of Merlin
Behold the magic of Merlin. In 1971, IBM started shipping disks with a technology nicknamed Merlin that let the drive head track the platter much better. Prerecorded servo bursts help sync up the head and platters.

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