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From: dz@lime.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle)
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Subject: Re: Floptical upside-down cake
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Date: 31 Jul 89 15:26:00 GMT
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In article <246300027@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Has anyone besides me noticed that it is EASY to insert the floptical upside
>down?

At my afternoon job, we have a couple of external optical disks
hooked up to a sun 3/50.  I can't remember offhand what company sold
us the drives, but I'm pretty sure that the drive mechanism was made by
Sony, and I know the disks are labeled "Sony."

In any case, the drive is only one sided, but the disks are double-sided.
That's right, to get to the other side, you have to flip the disk over.
The disks are just like those in the NeXT, except both sides the of the disk
inside have the cute rainbow patterns.  You get 300 megs per side,
more like 240 after formatting.

Before you get too excited about flippy disks, the drives cost $5K apiece,
and the disks run for $250 each!

					-Dan
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