Let’s now take a look at the heads. The floppy disk drive has two heads, one for each side of the floppy disk. They are stuck together in a set, so they both move together.
Figure 7: Heads set.
Figure 8: A closer look at the heads.
We removed one of the heads, as you can see in Figure 9.
Figure 9: A floppy disk drive head.
A quick reference table comparing the main specs of all Atom models released to date. Updated.
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