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how many flavors of flopticals?

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From: James Jones
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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From: jejones@microware.com (James Jones)
Subject: how many flavors of flopticals?
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Keywords: floppy, optical positioning, compatibility
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Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58:18 GMT
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