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Eric Lambert (esl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:  :  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.  :  :  -------- :  Eric
Lambert esl1@cornell.edu

 It exists.  Relatively new.  Rumor has it that it will go to ~40 meg
 soon.  One of these technologies which has been "coming" for a long time.

 Consider however that floptical is (I believe) much slower and has less
 capacity than either a Bernoulli Drive or a Syquest/SyDos drive!  Both
 of those can be gotten in the 88-90 Megabyte range for ~$500.  The
 removable media is ~$110 a pop for ~90 meg so it is slightly more
 expensive per byte but faster and larger.  The 44 Meg Bernoulli and
 Syquest drives are less $$ and the media is also less $$.  Beroulli
 claims that their media is very impervious to shock.  I think Syquest is
 somewhat faster.
 (see ads in Computer Shopper, Hard Drives Intl for examp)

 Regards,
 Chuck Cairns