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- From: gbluhm@galapagos.East.Sun.COM (Gerald Bluhm - Sun USOPS IR)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Superdrive v. Floptical
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:55:33 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- I've got a Mac II w/ an 800 K floppy drive. I also have a 44 MB removable hard-drive.
- (Yes I also have a non-removable hard-disk, but that's not relevant to my question:)
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- I'm considering buying a SuperDrive upgrade, but I'm wondering if I should get a
- 21 MB floptical drive instead. My main motivation for getting a new drive is to be
- able to dump files onto a DOS disk from my SparcStation at work, bring it home and
- load it directly. (I've done this using someone else's Mac that I no longer have
- access to.) Thus I would be able to avoid using a modem and tying up my phone for
- hours.
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- Mail order houses list the Applied Engineering 1.44 MB drives (similar to SuperDrive
- I assume) somewhere in the $200-$300 range. The floptical drives, which can read/write
- 1.44 MB floppies, are about $200 more, and the disks are considerably more expensive.
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- Any thoughts/recommendations/experience?
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- Thanks,
- Gerry
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