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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? 

The 3.5 OD drives do seem exciting.  I'm only aware of single-
sided units that store 128 MB.  If/when they go double-sided
and can store 256 MB, they would seem to offer all the promise
of the original NeXT OD - "your world in your pocket", 256 MB -
with none of the problems - no dust failures, three times as
fast, smaller and cheaper disks.

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)

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.