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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the latest on floptical drive availability?
Message-ID: <36690026@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 17:14:34 GMT
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> Are the ~200Mb optical/magnetic floppies of Next fame near to
> becoming a commercial reality (including media) for PC's?
> 
I doubt it. The 15th anniversary issue of BYTE magazine has a column
on one of these floptical drive. And it costs about US$900 for a 20 MB
drive which doesn't read normal floppy and the special 3-1/2" floppy
costs about US$25 each.

For this money, I would rather buy a SyQuest 44 MB 5-1/4" catridges
which is hard disk speed and cost competitive up to about 300 MB with
the floptical. ... As a fringe benefit, you get a SCSI controller which
can be used to add SCSI hard disk and tape drive etc. (albeit a SCSI-I).


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