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Article #1042Re: 3.5" Erasible Optical Disk < $10/each
From: John G Shirlaw
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 20:08
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 20:08
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In article <1992Apr8.062404.3380@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) writes: |> OD is dead due to cost, performance and reliablity problems. But |> how about the new 3.5 Erasible OD? Their speed is much faster than the |> origional OD and no caddy is need to hold the disk. As a matter of fact, |> they look nothing too different from the 3.5" Floppy ones. And I was told |> that Taiwan is going to mass-produce such disk for under $10/disk. For 128 |> Megs per side of one disk and the comparable cost, shouldn't it be a |> reason to dust out the current 2.8 Meg FD like the new CD-ROM did to the |> old sad OD? |> |> Gary What sort of time scale are we talking about before 3.5" start shipping at this price? thanks john.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jgshir From: jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: 3.5" Erasible Optical Disk < $10/each Message-ID: <1992Apr8.200807.23235@athena.mit.edu> Date: 8 Apr 92 20:08:07 GMT Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr8.200807.23235 References: <1992Apr8.062404.3380@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: w20-575-108.mit.edu