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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!l5next!scotty
- From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
- Subject: Re: Sony to Create Mini-Disks for PC Storage
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.075348.29362@gagetalker.com>
- Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com
- Organization: L5 Computing
- References: <pf!3-vp@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:53:48 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <pf!3-vp@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- writes:
- |> 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).
- Sony claims hard disk class performance for their MD MO technology. This is
- a whole new MO material that is _much_ faster than that in use on the
- current 3.5" and 5.25" MO systems. They claim a write speed of 8Mbits per
- second. This new material also allowed them to lighten the optical head
- and they claim that the MZ-1 MD recorder can position the head in 13ms
- (part of their "You can't make this unit skip" technology.)
-
- I've heard that they have a new 5.25" unit using the new material about ready
- for release...
-
- Other rumors say Apple will be shipping the MD-size computer drives later this
- year.
-
- And if all of that isn't enough, Sony claims they can make "hybrid" MD's that
- are part ROM and part MO. This would evidently be used for something like a new
- Nintendo machine (and Sony _is_ working with Nintendo on their new machine...)
-
- Scotty
-