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- From: cranem@edsi.plexus.COM (Mike Crane)
- Subject: Re: Floptical instead of SuperDrive?
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:41:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.204121.28995@edsi.plexus.COM>
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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?
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- Yes, it does, but *only* to get the ~20MB format. They use standard HD
- floppies for 1.44meg and standard DD floppies for 720K.
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