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- From: pochanay@cae.wisc.edu (Adisak Pochanayon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floptical Drive, 3000 and 2000?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.172408.2951@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 22:24:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.193443.8008@javelin.sim.es.com> <64633@cup.portal.com>
- Sender: pochanay@cae.wisc.edu
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <64633@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
- >There is no difference in the flopticals on the A3000 and A2000. The
- >A3000 has the equivalent of an A2091 controller built in. I have had
- >a floptical on my A2000 for a while now, it is 3-4 times faster than
- >my floppy. The drives are the same size (physically as a regular
- >880K internal floppy). The units sold by DMI and TTR are basically
- >the same. If you want to get one direct(for alot less cost), send me
- >some mail and I will give you details. I have a program I am releasing
- >into the PD to enable writing on the Insite flopticals. No sense spending
- >$60 for one with the drive...;-)
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- TTR is no longer in business. They went under several months ago and owed
- me a large sum of money when they went under (I was one of their programmers).
-