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Article #265how many flavors of flopticals?
From: James Jones
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58
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I got a blurb in the mail today from a computer supply place, and one of the things in the catalog is a floptical drive--you know, a SCSI beastie that will do canonical 3.5" 720K and 1.44M disks AND do special floppy disks that will hold 20 Mbytes. Anyway, I got to wondering...the brand name mentioned is "GrassRoots Removable Disk Technology." A company I have heard of in the past that makes this sort of drive is Insite. Question: are we talking two incompatible drives here, or are we dealing with the same format? Heck, for all I know, GrassRoots may be an OEM for Insite, or something of that sort. I'm curious, because I'm thinking semi-seriously (when I have money :-) about getting one from somebody, and I'd hope that there aren't two different formats out there. Please email; I'll summarize if there's sufficient response and interest. Thanks. James Jones (Unassociated with either company mentioned in the above text, save that perhaps I'll be a customer of one of them someday--also, of course, any opinions expressed in the above are purely those of the author.)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcrware!jejones From: jejones@microware.com (James Jones) Subject: how many flavors of flopticals? Message-ID: <1992Aug28.215818.17273@microware.com> Keywords: floppy, optical positioning, compatibility Sender: news@microware.com Nntp-Posting-Host: snake Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58:18 GMT Lines: 25