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- From: chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns)
- Subject: Re: Has anyone heard of Floptical drives?
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:33:48 GMT
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- Eric Lambert (esl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote: : I read in a
- magazine yesterday about a new (?) disk for IBM's. : It is the size
- of a 3.5" disk, but optical, so the TPI is : somewhere over 1000. It
- stores 21MB of data, and each disk costs : about $25. The drives are
- standard size 3.5" drives and can : read/write to 720K. 1.44meg, and
- 21meg Floptical disks. All for : about $500. Is this new? Does it
- work? Does anyone have one? : : Thanks. : : -------- : Eric
- Lambert esl1@cornell.edu
-
- It exists. Relatively new. Rumor has it that it will go to ~40 meg
- soon. One of these technologies which has been "coming" for a long time.
-
- Consider however that floptical is (I believe) much slower and has less
- capacity than either a Bernoulli Drive or a Syquest/SyDos drive! Both
- of those can be gotten in the 88-90 Megabyte range for ~$500. The
- removable media is ~$110 a pop for ~90 meg so it is slightly more
- expensive per byte but faster and larger. The 44 Meg Bernoulli and
- Syquest drives are less $$ and the media is also less $$. Beroulli
- claims that their media is very impervious to shock. I think Syquest is
- somewhat faster.
- (see ads in Computer Shopper, Hard Drives Intl for examp)
-
- Regards,
- Chuck Cairns
-