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In article <esl1.721378256@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> esl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Eric Lambert) writes:
>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?

There's been quite a bit of talk about these drives in
comp.sys.apple2...it all started two or so years ago, but it's only
been in the past year that drives have become available.  Insite had a
booth at the last Fall COMDEX where they were showing it off; I have a
spec sheet for the drive somewhere.  It's a low-profile (1") 3.5"
drive that should fit in any drive bay.  It uses a SCSI interface and
should be usable with any machine that supports SCSI (that's why
there's Apple II interest in the drive).  I don't know what'd be
involved in getting the drive to work with an IBM clone (other than
getting a SCSI card for it)...but on the Apple II, people are trying
to debug controller ROMs to get the drive to work properly (as a
removable-media device) with the RamFAST, a popular caching SCSI
controller.

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