Re: 650mb capacity magneto-optical drives here yet?

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From: peter888
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 13:41

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ajp3@cec.wustl.edu (Andrew Pann) wrote:

>Hello!  I was wondering if anyone has information on the 
>currently-vaporware (so it seems) 650 megabyte capacity magneto-optical 
>drive?
>

They are here .. for more than 6 months already; at least in Singapore.

There are currently 3 brands that I know of. They are Panasonic, NEC and Toray.

Panasonic and NEC are selling them for less than S$900 (~US$500).

These SCSI drives are dual purpose; they have a built-in quad-speed CD-ROM drive.

The media costs about US$50 each.

Access times are not too impressive though.

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