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Article #2161Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
From: Herb Poppe
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 16:01
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 16:01
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While we are on the subject of removable media... Several years ago a start-up called Brier Technology announced that they were developing a new drive technology that utilized a 3 1/2" 20 megabyte floppy. The media used the same hard plastic shell as a "regular" floppy, but the enclosed media was different. If I recall it incorporated pre-written servo tracks. Since then Brier's name pops up every once in awhile but it has been some time since I've heard about them. Are they still in business? Did they ever bring their drive to market? Did any of the Mac OEM's incorporate it in a product? It seems to me that one of the attractive aspects to this drive was the potential for low-cost media relative to the SyQuest and Bernoulli cartridges. Herb Poppe NCAR INTERNET: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1296 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307 UUCP: hpoppe@ncar.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!bierstadt!hpoppe From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it? Message-ID: <3825@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 31 Jul 89 16:01:05 GMT Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 20