FLOPTICAL drives

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From: ryan Ryan Jorgenson
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 14:53

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   Has anyone had experience with the "microtronics Trade Service" TESS I325
FLOPTICAL drive?  Our company looked into these about a year ago (the original
manufacturer, Insite Peripherals, CA), and they looked quite useful, if they
weren't vaporware. (For those of you that don't know, a FLOPTICAL drive is 
a MAGNETO-OPTICAL floppy disk, that uses optical markers to identify tracks.
By using the optical markers, the track density can be increased dramatically.
In the case of the I325, they claim to be able to put 20MB on a 
3-1/2" floppy.)  The ad I saw was in the lattest Byte Issue.  

   If you are using these, or know where you can get them in Canada 
(or the U.S., but Canada would be better), I'm sure their are a few
people interested...

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Subject: FLOPTICAL drives
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