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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 20Meg flopticals
Message-ID: <37604@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 13:48:26 GMT
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monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) in <977@sagpd1.UUCP> writes:

	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.

The current issue of MICROTIMES (#77; a free "rag" in Silicon Valley) has on
page 218:

``
The Insite I325VM (Variable Mode) Floptical disk is the first 20MB 3.5" floppy
disk drive also able to read and write standard low capacity Double Density and
High Density diskettes.  This is achieved by merging optical and magnetic
recording technologies with the use of low-cost components developed for
compact disk recording as well as traditional magnetic floppy diskette drive
assemblies.

The Floptical is designed to plug and play with existing SCSI host adapters
for IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, Macintosh and other SCSI-compatible computers.

Insite Peripherals
4433 Fortran Dr.
San Jose CA 95134  (408)946-8080
''

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]