Re: SCSI Floppy Drives

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From: Rasmus Paetau
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:16

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In article <71707@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Ah yes... I'd forgotten about the Floptical drives..!
>
>True, that would fill most of the functions of an external floppy drive,
>and as Dan mentioned, it comes with a free 21 Meg removable media
>"semi hard" drive..
> 
>It's most glaring drawback though is $300 for a "second floppy drive"..
>
>It feels hard to justify that when you can get 100-120 Megs of "real"
>hard drive for about that much, or a 44Meg SyQuest.. (then again, I paid
>a lot more than that for my first Atari 810 disk drive..!)
>
>BobR

I think that for a month or two ago it was mentioned by someone that
there were SCSI ordinary disk drives somewhere to get, I guess that if
that is true then it wouldn't cost as much as a floptical, but maybe a
bit higher than ordinary drives anyway.



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