Backpack drives

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From: John Norman
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 22:26

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I recently saw an ad in "Computer Shopper" for a really cool product
that is called a "Backpack" disk drive.  They have models for both
3.5 and 5.25" disks.  They plug into the parallel interface, and then
you can "backpack" your printer into the back of that.

They are reasonably priced ($300-400).  They have a high-density
model that can put 2.8meg on a 3.5" disk.

Has anyone seen/used one of these things?  How are the transfer rates
compared to a typical 3.5" drive (say the 770K type on a Toshiba
T1000 laptop)?

If you've seen one, what kind of disk takes the 2.8meg formatting?

For my purposes, if the speed was pretty good, it woud be an ideal
homebase disk drive for my laptop: lots of space on a removeable media.



John Norman
Department of English and American Literature and Language
Warren House Box E-13
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA  02138
617/495-2533 (Official business ONLY)

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