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From: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OPTICAL-see the light.
Message-ID: <713@mpirbn.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 90 20:05:04 GMT
References: <7619@latcs1.oz.au>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <7619@latcs1.oz.au> barton@latcs1.oz.au (The Wasp) writes:
>Can this be true.  A 600 meg disc for the AMIGA?
>And is it really OPTICAL.  What is the price on this article of amazement?
>I would love to know more and I think a lot of other avid amiga users would like
>to know to!!!

Actually, it is 'magneto-optical', the information is hold magnetic as with
usual hard disks. But the writing and reading has to be done with some
assistance of a laser beam to focus on smaller parts of the disk.

We are running several boxes with our Sun and Dec machines.
Cost is about 8000,- DM (about $4500) for the drive. The disks are 600,- DM
(about $350).

A company in germany sells such a drive for the Amiga for 10000,- DM.


-- 
Michael van Elst
p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de