Re: MD drives

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:28

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jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory) writes:
> So if Sony can sell MD (MiniDisc) drives for digital music, why can't  
> we have 2.5 inch floppies that hold 300mb - 600mb?

You might want to look into MO drives.  You can get 3.5" floppy-sized  
cartridges that hold 128meg now.  MOST has newer ones which hold 256meg.   
Some companies claim they plan to skip 256meg and that the next generation  
will be 512meg.

The Pinnacle-based 128meg MO drives have access times down in the 19ms  
range, which makes them quite nice.  (I intend to order one next week...).   
If the 512meg ones become real, and come in with performance like that,  
they'll be *really* nice devices to have.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

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