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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 20Meg flopticals
Keywords: floptical discs
Message-ID: <977@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 91 16:34:08 GMT
References: <1990Dec22.171848.4873@ericsson.se>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
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In article <1990Dec22.171848.4873@ericsson.se> etxtomp@eos5c08.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>Where can I get information (newsgroup) on the interesting 20MB
>flopticals (availability on a large scale, pricing, media price)?
>
>Are there any SCSI flopticals (I beleive that would be the best
>way to connect one to an Amiga) or flopticals of any other sort
>already for the Amiga?

    The "Floptical" 20meg drive is a product of :

	    Insite Peripherals
	    4433 Fortran Drive
	    San Jose, CA. 95134-2302
	    (408) 946-8080
	    FAX (408) 946-4403

    The Floptical is a 20 Meg SCSI removable 3 1/2" media . The floppies 
    look exactally like an every day 3 1/2 floppy, but they have been
    encoded with an optical tracking track to allow for the increased
    density. The last time I contacted them they were reducing the drive to 
    a 1" high form factor and adding the ability to read standard floppies
    in the same drive.

    Last announced delivery date "RSN" :)

    I do not work for Insite, I have just been following this drive
    for the last couple of years. The price range was supposed to be in the 
    $200 dollar area.

    Monty Saine