Method of reading addresses on a magnetic recording medium and apparatus for putting it into effect

摘要

Items of information written in a binary code on a plurality of magnetic disc tracks are read by a magnetic head. The address for each track is written in a reference zone having a plurality of cells equal to the number of bits in the address. A constant frequency cyclic reference signal H is divided by logic pulses from the head to produce a signal SYNCHRO. The bit of each address is determined by combining the SYNCHRO signals and a pulse representative of the binary value of each bit that depends on the temporal position of a pulse within a period of signal SYNCHRO. The number of cells is counted, each time a bit is determined. The address is sampled bit by bit and transferred to a storage member throughout the counting and sampling operations.