how many flavors of flopticals?

Thread View: comp.sys.misc

1 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

1 total messages Started by James Jones Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58

#265

Author: James Jones
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:58

25 lines
1530 bytes

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.)

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads