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- From: markr@sco.COM (Mark Riley)
- Subject: Re: Info on flopticals?
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 18:31:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep09.183137.618@sco.com>
- References: <1992Aug25.095728.20697@odin.diku.dk>
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- In article <1992Aug25.095728.20697@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
- >Some time ago I heard somone mention somthing called flopticals (or
- >something similar), which is a combination of a magnetic and optical
- >media. The capacity was mentioned to be 20mb (even more later) with
- >access time as harddisks a few years ago, and normal 3.5" floppy
- >package.
- >
- >I haven't heard anything about it since, so if anyone could point
- >me to articles, tests, or even pruduct information I would be most
- >gratefull.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Niels
-
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- The "floptical" drive is made by Insite Peripherals in San
- Jose. You can reach them at (408) 946-8080.
-
- The drive is a 5.25" drive that will read and write to either
- a standard magnetic floppy (3.5" & 5.25") or a 3.5" optical
- foppy that looks like a 3.5" standard floppy. The optical
- floppy stores 21Mb.
-
- mark
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- Mark Riley (408) 427-7117
- Storage Technologies Segment Mgr. markr@sco.com
- The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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