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Article #724220 meg. floppy drive
From: Douglas A. Bell
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 02:15
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 02:15
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I was doing a trade technical magazine search in the Lexis/Nexis data base of Mead Data Central and found an article about high capacity floppies. Here is a device that I found under the key word search "floptical"- holds about 22 megs per disk 65 ms access time uses 3.5" disks that are specially formatted with an opticly read pattern on some sort of barrium oxide media. reads and writes magneticly uses a scsi interface downward compatible with 720k & 1.44m. the cost: $795.00 and about $10 per preformatted disk. The article said that it would be available this April. I think I want 10 of 'em. Does anyone know anything about this? -- "^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"~^"^~"^~"^~ Douglas Bell dab6@po.cwru.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!dab6 From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: 20 meg. floppy drive Message-ID: <1991Jan31.021525.871@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 31 Jan 91 02:15:25 GMT Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns6.ins.cwru.edu