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Article #1867NeXT "floptical" drive
From: David E. Sill
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 11:17
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 11:17
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According to everything I've read about the NeXT drive, it's magneto-optical, not "floptical". The NeXT drive is a true read/write optical disk. Floptical drives are metallic oxide coated disks with tiny holes used for laser tracking. Floptical drive capacities are closer to hard disk capacities than optical disk capacities. See the latest BYTE for details about the NeXT drive. Please don't remove NeXT discussion from this list until there are ARPA and BITNET mailing lists for NeXT. All the world does not have netnews. -Dave Sill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!RELAY-NSWC.NAVY.MIL!dsill From: dsill@RELAY-NSWC.NAVY.MIL (David E. Sill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: NeXT "floptical" drive Message-ID: <Q366BE44@dsillpc> Date: 27 Oct 88 11:17:35 GMT Article-I.D.: dsillpc.Q366BE44 Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12