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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Floptical instead of SuperDrive?
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 13:00:01 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
-
- >I have my own question about this: Can one of those Floptical drives (720K,
- >1.44MB, 21MB) drives connected to a SCSI card work with the MS-DOS FST?
-
- In theory, yes. Everyone offering stuff currently expects it to work when the
- FST is released, and if there are problems then they will almost definitely be
- considered bugs and fixed pronto.
-
- >If it could, that would be great... Read all IBM, Mac, and of course my
- >Apple II disks as well as 21MB removable "cartridges". This sounds, to
- >me, like a much better cost:performance ratio than a SuperDrive and card.
-
- The Floptical can already exchange 1.44MB disks with Macintoshes. To me, it is
- a great interim product, and will keep me chugging until long after the MO
- devices are well established...
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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