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- From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Floptical...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.093647.90642@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 09:36:47 +1100
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- jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
- > saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
- >
- >>Someone is selling me his old internal drive, because
- >>he is replacing it with a floptical drive..
- >
- >>This sounds interesting, and I would like some more information
- >>on floptical drives, such as:
- >> Storage capacity
- >> Ease of use
- >> Speed of use
- >> Size [physical]
- >> Controllers
- >> and of course price!
- >
- > PLI makes the only drive I've seen with Amiga drivers included, and it's
- > a SCSI drive. This particular floptical drive uses 21MB diskettes, which
- > cost about $20 each, and costs about $650 with one "free" disk. I understand
-
- I was talking to my local Amiga dealer about Flopticals about a
- month ago. While he was in the US earlier this year he visited the people
- who wrote the commercial backup program Quarterback (I forget the company
- name). My dealer says these people told him that there are still problems
- with disk reliability. The Quaterback people supposedly said that the disks
- start becoming unreliable after they've been over-written 5 or 6 times.
- They believe the problem is with the disks, not the drive.
-
-
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