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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 23:46:00 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:
-
- >Doesn't the Floptical use special 3.5" floppies? That is, can you use an
- >ordinary floppy with one and transfer stuff from a Mac (on a 1.44meg floppy)?
- >Is the floptical faster than a floppy drive?
-
- Yes, it uses 720K (double density), 1.44MB (high density), and 21MB (Floptical
- (R) media). The first two should be PC compatible when the MSDOS FST comes out,
- and are about as fast as a normal floppy drive. The floptical media is quicker
- but is not as fast as a real hard drive.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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