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Article #2862Re: Sony-3100 optical SCSI drive, anybody done it yet?
From: Sean Schur
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1990 19:37
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1990 19:37
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In article <10530@saturn.ADS.COM> xanthian@saturn.ads.com (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: > >Meandering around the net today, I learned that Sony has an optical >disk drive available that is a SCSI beast. Anybody know 1) if >(presumably) this is a rewritable drive, 2) any stats on it, and most >important, 3) has anybody hooked one up to our favorite microcomputer >yet? Briwall (mail order house) has been advertising 3 different optical disk drives for a couple months now, they call them "optical erasable drive". Their sizes are approx. 550MB, 680MB and 1 Gibabyte. The prices range from $3500-$4500 with new cartriges for about $350 each. Yes, you can take out the disk and put in a new one, simple as a 3.5" disk, in case you fill up your 1 Gig too fast. I called up Briwall's tech line for some answers. They said the drives are actually made for Macs (too bad) but there are currently 3 companies supporting them with SCSI controllers for the Amiga (I think one was GVP, but I'm not sure). I originally saw the ads in Amiga World. I have no affiliation with Briwall or Amiga World. - Sean Schur
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!venera.isi.edu!schur From: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Sony-3100 optical SCSI drive, anybody done it yet? Message-ID: <11486@venera.isi.edu> Date: 20 Jan 90 19:37:02 GMT References: <10530@saturn.ADS.COM> Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Sean Schur) Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California Lines: 23