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- From: kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Flopticals...any successful usage out there?
- Message-ID: <=hvy#am@rpi.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:38:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.045333.6530@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Aug30.122909.13485@news.unomaha.edu> <1992Aug30.231234.10970@cco.caltech.edu>
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- In article <1992Aug30.231234.10970@cco.caltech.edu> toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
- >kippley@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kip Kippley) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- Would this, if it were true, mean that you could use the floptical and the
- forthcoming MS-DOS FST to read standard MS-DOS disks w/o getting a Superdrive
- and card? Would the SCSI driver support daisy-chaining such a device from an
- existing hard drive?
-
- Mike
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- Michael Kent kentm@rpi.edu
- McDonnell Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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