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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ucsee.Berkeley.EDU!chiu
  2. From: chiu@ucsee.berkeley.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
  4. Subject: Re: Flopticals...any successful usage out there?
  5. Date: 2 Sep 1992 20:43:10 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers (UCSEE)
  7. Lines: 5
  8. Message-ID: <18390uINN7os@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <1992Aug30.122909.13485@news.unomaha.edu> <fmlin.1bfw@terapin.com>
  10. Reply-To: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.berkeley.edu
  12. Summary: Cheap Flopticals
  13. Keywords: Floptical, Insite, SCSI
  14. Originator: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU
  15.  
  16. Another company in my area is selling the same mechanism Tulin use in their 
  17. drives for mere $299 (of course they gear the drive toward messydos users
  18. so that price  includes an 8 bit SCSI card) To make that drive work with
  19. Apple //s you'l probably need an external casing and SCSI card plus appropriate
  20. drivers.
  21.