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- From: maynard@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: Info on flopticals?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.025724.18833@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:57:24 GMT
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- Am I the only one who wonders quite what niche flopticals are supposed to
- fit. The most recent prices I've seen have the drive costing about as much
- as a Syquest or Bernoulli drive, while each disk also cost about as much
- per MB as a Syquest or Bernoulli cartridge. The 88MB Syquest or 90MB
- Bernoulli systems are much larger- always more convenient than 4 or 5 20MB
- disks- and are hard drive speed rather than floppy speed which I imagine
- flopticals run at.
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- I remain mystified as to why anyone would want to buy these things.
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- Maynard Handley
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