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In article <pf!3-vp@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
writes:
|> MO drives are getting close to hard drive speeds now, and can handle 256 meg  
|> cartridges (on 3.5" disks).  You can't get the speed *and* the 256 meg size  
|> in the same drive (yet), but I'm sure that future drives will improve on  
|> current offerings.  Me, I'd like something even larger than 130 meg for use  
|> on the NeXT (though 100meg would be fine for my Mac).
Sony claims hard disk class performance for their MD MO technology. This is
a whole new MO material that is _much_ faster than that in use on the
current 3.5" and 5.25" MO systems. They claim a write speed of 8Mbits per 
second. This new material also allowed them to lighten the optical head
and they claim that the MZ-1 MD recorder can position the head in 13ms
(part of their "You can't make this unit skip" technology.)

I've heard that they have a new 5.25" unit using the new material about ready
for release...

Other rumors say Apple will be shipping the MD-size computer drives later this
year.

And if all of that isn't enough, Sony claims they can make "hybrid" MD's that
are part ROM and part MO. This would evidently be used for something like a new
Nintendo machine (and Sony _is_ working with Nintendo on their new machine...)

Scotty