article · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 1974
Optimal Rectangular Code for High Density Magnetic Tapes
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IBM's 6250 bpi 3420 series tape units require a powerful error-correcting code for the standard 9-track format. The optimal rectangular code (ORC), presented here, is designed to correct any single-track error or, given erasure pointers, any double-track error in the tape. The code achieves this by conforming to a rectangular codeword of which two orthogonal sides are check bits. The code is specially tailored from a general class of b-adjacent codes. The ORC can be implemented without a buffer for encoding and offers a simple error-correction mechanism. The code can be generalized to multiple-channel applications.
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Patel, A. M., & Hong, S. J. (1974). Optimal Rectangular Code for High Density Magnetic Tapes. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 18(6), 579–588. https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.186.0579
Patel, A. M., and S. J. Hong. “Optimal Rectangular Code for High Density Magnetic Tapes.” IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 18, no. 6, 1974, pp. 579–88, https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.186.0579.
Patel, A. M., and S. J. Hong. 1974. “Optimal Rectangular Code for High Density Magnetic Tapes.” IBM Journal of Research and Development 18 (6): 579–88. https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.186.0579.
Patel, A.M. and Hong, S.J. (1974) ‘Optimal Rectangular Code for High Density Magnetic Tapes’, IBM Journal of Research and Development, 18(6), pp. 579–588. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.186.0579.
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