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From: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: Floptical Drives
Keywords: floptical
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Date: 22 Aug 90 14:38:19 GMT
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In article <5377@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>    Does anyone know what ever became of Floptical drives? I would
>be very interested in buying one... if they're not vaporware.

I assume you're talking about units like the Insite I325 20meg 3.5"
floptical.  They weren't vaporware (I've got an evaluation unit at
home), but they are now.  According to a note in BYTE a couple of
months back, they decided to incorporate auto-eject and a wider
variety of disk formats before marketing them.  The unit I've got has
manual eject and supports only one format (the 20meg format).

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