Appeal No. 1999-0043 Application 08/599,875 THE PRIOR ART The Examiner relies on the following prior art: Daniels et al. (Daniels) 2,680,239 June 1, 1954 Mizunoe et al. (Mizunoe) 4,998,238 March 5, 1991 Gilovich 5,343,347 August 30, 1994 Kitahara 5,519,676 May 21, 1996 (effective filing date October 11, 1994) Daniels discloses an apparatus for rapidly selecting a desired area or point among a group of such areas or points positioned in a track. The disk embodiment has a clock pulse track 13 read by a transducer 16, positional data track 14 read by transducer 17, and intelligence track(s) 15 having 10 transducers 18, 18', 18", etc., which "may be interprted [sic] as indicating either one or more heads, depending on the number of tracks involved" (col. 3, lines 69-71). When it is desired to locate certain areas, positional data is read from track 14 and the difference in position is determined. "With the difference thus determined, the transducing unit in closest anticipatory proximity to the area to be selected is enabled for transducing while the other transducing units remain unenabled." Col. 1, lines 40-44. Thus, Daniels - 4 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007