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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: MD drives
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- References: <1992Dec9.144756.1042@proforma.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:28:44 GMT
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- jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory) writes:
- > So if Sony can sell MD (MiniDisc) drives for digital music, why can't
- > we have 2.5 inch floppies that hold 300mb - 600mb?
-
- You might want to look into MO drives. You can get 3.5" floppy-sized
- cartridges that hold 128meg now. MOST has newer ones which hold 256meg.
- Some companies claim they plan to skip 256meg and that the next generation
- will be 512meg.
-
- The Pinnacle-based 128meg MO drives have access times down in the 19ms
- range, which makes them quite nice. (I intend to order one next week...).
- If the 512meg ones become real, and come in with performance like that,
- they'll be *really* nice devices to have.
-
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- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
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