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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: ramfasts and flopticals?
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 10:35:15 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- "Seth D. Kadesh" <sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- >ok guys. what's the deal? i've got a ramfast with the new roms, and
- >a clone pc. i remember the discussion about the 20 meg floptical
- >drives that can read ibm disks - i'd like to add storage to my gs, and
- >the added convenience of easy data transfer would be nice. so what
- >kind (manufacturer) of drive is it? what are the exact capabilities
- >(high density, low density, mac disks also)?
-
- It would have been nice if you'd saved out those messages -- I repeated all
- the stuff you are asking about _multiple_ times. In brief:
-
- Mechanism is Insite I325VM from Insite Peripherals Inc. It is a SCSI device,
- Insite claims it supports the Common Command Set. Comments made by CVT indicate
- that this is mostly true.
-
- Current vendors in Apple II market are Tulin Technology and AE. The AE drive
- is cheaper, but my experience with Tulin has been that they are quite good
- about support.
-
- Drive handles three formats: 20 meg (proprietary but licensed to many partners)
- which has the same form factor as a standard 3.5 but is a special disk that
- costs $25; 1.44meg "HD" 3.5 floppies in MFM format, also used by IBM 1.4 drives
- and Apple/Mac FDHD; 720K 3.5 floppies, used by IBM 720K drive but NOT supported
- by Apple 3.5 drives.
-
- Reading of Mac/IBM formats is dependent on FST's, i.e. Mac disks can be used
- now, but MSDOS is not usable yet.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
-