Has anyone heard of Floptical drives?

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From: Eric Lambert
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 06:50

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I read in a magazine yesterday about a new (?) disk for IBM's.
It is the size of a 3.5" disk, but optical, so the TPI is
somewhere over 1000.  It stores 21MB of data, and each disk costs
about $25.  The drives are standard size 3.5" drives and can
read/write to 720K. 1.44meg, and 21meg Floptical disks.  All for
about $500.  Is this new?  Does it work?  Does anyone have one?

Thanks.

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Eric Lambert				esl1@cornell.edu
Class of 1995, Cornell Law	

"Jesus saves...but Gretsky gets the rebound and SCORES!!!!!"

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Eric Lambert				esl1@cornell.edu
Class of 1995, Cornell Law		esl1_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

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