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From: tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Removable mass storage devices
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Date: 30 Nov 90 01:01:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: gregs@meaddata.com's message of 29 Nov 90 20:13:26 GMT

In article <2061@meaddata.meaddata.com>, gregs@meaddata.com (Greg Smith) writes:
> I'm looking for some sort of unlimited storage
> with hard disk performance.  I don't want to get
> another bigger fixed disk.  It would be nice to be 
> able to back up my 68 MB disk to this new system.

> I have considered a WORM drive or read/write
> CD/Eletro-Optical type drive but I have no
> specs or costs for these type systems.

There are a number of vendors with 128MB 3.5 inch magneto-optical
drives.  The specs I've seen for these all advertise 28 msec average
seek times.  I believe Pinnacle was one of these.

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