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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Subject: Re: Flopticals...any successful usage out there?
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:12:34 GMT
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- kippley@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kip Kippley) writes:
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- >Applied Engineering has a Floptical External 21 Megabyte SCSI drive which also
- >doubles as an 800K and 1.44 Meg external floppy disk drive. SRP is $699.00.
-
- Ok, I've been seeing reports of this on GEnie too. I am skeptical of the 800K
- figure, I think it is 720K (i.e. MS-DOS, not Apple 3.5), because these mechs
- have no reason to support the variable speed scheme Apple uses. It sounds like
- AE is also using the Insite mechanism, although it is possible they are using
- the one from Briers.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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