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- From: paetau@mits.mdata.fi (Rasmus Paetau)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Floppy Drives
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:16:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.211641.13123@prime.mdata.fi>
- References: <71624@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec15.010847.11677@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <71707@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <71707@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >Ah yes... I'd forgotten about the Floptical drives..!
- >
- >True, that would fill most of the functions of an external floppy drive,
- >and as Dan mentioned, it comes with a free 21 Meg removable media
- >"semi hard" drive..
- >
- >It's most glaring drawback though is $300 for a "second floppy drive"..
- >
- >It feels hard to justify that when you can get 100-120 Megs of "real"
- >hard drive for about that much, or a 44Meg SyQuest.. (then again, I paid
- >a lot more than that for my first Atari 810 disk drive..!)
- >
- >BobR
-
- I think that for a month or two ago it was mentioned by someone that
- there were SCSI ordinary disk drives somewhere to get, I guess that if
- that is true then it wouldn't cost as much as a floptical, but maybe a
- bit higher than ordinary drives anyway.
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