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Article #379Re: 650mb capacity magneto-optical drives here yet?
From: David Dillard
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 15:55
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 15:55
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peter888@singnet.com.sg wrote: > > 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. Those drives are not magneto-optical drives, they are PD drives. They use phase-change technology, not MO technology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Dillard david@microdes.com Principal Software Engineer Micro Design International, Inc. http://www.microdes.com
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