recently someone posted a book that detailed how to build #floppies from scratch (including the ferrofluid etc.) I thought I had saved or boosted it, but apparently not. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact title, maybe @nina_kali_nina knows? In general the book was talking about magnetic storage, and was from the 80's (I think). Please boost.
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Found it thanks to @vaporeon_ and @gloriouscow , it's "Magnetic Recording, Volume 1".
@werdahias I'm pretty sure it was someone I know but I forgot who 😰
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I remember seeing a video about it, I looked it up but sadly no mention of a book in the description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBiFGhnXsh8
I do remember it was the first in a series, and had a brown-ish cover.
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@werdahias @nina_kali_nina Was it "Magnetic Recording, Volume I: Technology" and "Magnetic Recording, Volume II: Computer Data Storage"? By C. Denis Mee and Eric D. Daniel. ISBN 0-07-041271-5 and 0-07-041272-3.
It's a quite detailed book about read/write heads for magnetic recording, how hard drives work, how floppy disks work, how magnetic tape works. And I got it from the library because of the recommendation by someone on here (might've been gloriouscow @ oldbytes.space ?). Looks like chapter 3 of volume 1 has a lot of information about the magnetic media specifically, including what it's made of and how to coat it.
@werdahias @nina_kali_nina I have not found the book yet, but I did find a video on Archive_org
@werdahias @nina_kali_nina The "brown-ish" covers I found on Thriftbooks for "magnetic storage" search...
@werdahias I remember this as a video not book recently (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TBiFGhnXsh8) if that's perhaps it
@howtophil @werdahias sadly the author of the video didn't make a working floppy, just something that looks like a floppy but doesn't act like one magnetically:( better Luck next time I guess
@werdahias (Edit): "Magnetic Recording. Volume I: Technology" was linked by @gloriouscow , wasn't it?
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