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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Erasable optical drive
Message-ID: <1950@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 90 20:45:20 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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At work we receive Direct Access ("For Canada's information systems
professionals").  While reading the current issue (Vol. 6, No. 10,
May 25, 1990), I was pleased to notice that they acknowledge the
existence of the Amiga, with references to it in such things as
articles on viruses, etc.  They also included the following article:


OPTICAL DRIVE FOR THE AMIGA 2000

An eraseable magneto-optical disk drive which is compatible with
the Commodore Amiga 2000 has been released by Xyxis Corp. of
Minneapolis, Mn. and distributed in Canada by Sak Data Products
Ltd. of Mississauga, Ont.

Called the Xyxis XY600RW, it is a high-density drive which is
accessed through an Amiga 2090 or 2090A SCSI interface board.

According to the firm, the Amiga can be booted directly from the
optical drive and the software supports AmigaDOS 1.3.

Each 5.25-inch industry-standard ISO format cartridge stores up
to 600 Mbytes of information.

The cartridge can be erased more than one million times, the firm
claims.

It can be removed from the drive for security or portability.

Interfaces to the Apple Macintosh, IBM AT and PS/2 are also
available for the XY600RW.

List price: $8,580.

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Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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