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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!larsen
- From: larsen@unislc.uucp (Steve Larsen)
- Subject: Re: Floptical (21Mb 3.5" disks)
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- References: <1992Aug20.153954.49515@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.175106.24201@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:51:06 GMT
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- corourke@ccvax.ucd.ie wrote:
- : Flopticals : I saw an article about these in a magazine some months
- : ago. Someone was manufacturing a disk drive that could read 1.44MB,
- : 720KB and a 21MB magneto-optical disk, soon to be upgraded to
- : maybe 40-60MB. The drive was supposed to retail for around 350 pounds
- : with the disks at 110 pounds for 5.
- : Has anyone heard anything about these marvels?? I think that the
- : new 2.88Mb are too little, too late, too expensive and that the
- : new 3.5" should be the floptical....
- :
- I can get one of these 21MB drives locally for $350US. The disks are
- $20US. I think this is worth considering relative to say a Bernoulli
- drive, or a SyQuest removable hard drive. Granted, the disks are only
- 21MB each, but the price per megabyte is less.`
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