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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: Sony to Create Mini-Disks for PC Storage
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:11:02 GMT
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- On Jan 3rd, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
- > I just came across this, and thought you might be interested.
- >
- > NeXT's original optical disk flopped, but this may be what everyone
- > wanted all along with features:
- >
- > * 130MB re-writable storage
- > * Cheap blank media ($12 now) which you can buy in any audio store
- > * For mass distribution, pre-recorded (read-only) stamped format
- > like CD-ROM is available. Will it be called MD-ROM?
-
- How fast is it?
-
- MO drives are getting close to hard drive speeds now, and can handle 256 meg
- cartridges (on 3.5" disks). You can't get the speed *and* the 256 meg size
- in the same drive (yet), but I'm sure that future drives will improve on
- current offerings. Me, I'd like something even larger than 130 meg for use
- on the NeXT (though 100meg would be fine for my Mac).
-
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------
- > Newsgroups: clari.nb.trends,clari.nb.top,biz.clarinet.sample
- > Subject: ****Sony to Create Mini-Disks for PC Storage 12/24/92
- >
- > Expected to be ready for commercial release in about two years,
- > the Mini-Disk is smaller than a 3.5-inch floppy disk, but it
- > can store 130 megabytes data, or about 130 times more than
- > a regular 3.5-inch floppy disk. With these advantages, Sony is
- > betting that the Mini-Disk will replace not only floppy disks
- > but also the optical disc in the future.
-
- If they don't expect commercial release of this for another two years, then
- they should realize that they shouldn't be comparing themselves with 1.4 meg
- floppy drives (gee, the NeXT has 2.8 already, and that doesn't count newer
- floptical or 3.5" MO drive technologies). If this was available *today* it
- could be a big hit, but two years from now the competition will be much
- different, I'm sure.
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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