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From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.025116.25881@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 02:51:16 GMT
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In article <17114@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> In article <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu writes:
[ ... ]
> >   CASE 5: HIGH-DENSITY FLOPPY DRIVES:
> >These drives have been available for so long that
> >they are already being considered out-of-date, and several companies
> >(including IBM and NeXT) are moving beyond these drives to 2.88MB drives.
> 
> The only one with 2.88 MB drives is NeXT.  IBM hasn't announced that they're
> moving to 2.88 MB drives, and in fact, the industry rumor mill has it that
> IBM is looking a very different technology to go beyond 1.44 MB.  

I heard they were looking at going with the 20 MByte Insite Flopticals.  I
have *not* heard whether that would mean SCSI or not.

Are the flopticals available these days, or what?  They really sound to me 
like a great thing, particularly now that they can read and write "normal"
floppies too.  Anybody using these things with Amigas?

                                   - Neil

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