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From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: High capacity Floptical drives
Summary: Backup & distribution media: now we're talking
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.014515.6681@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 7 Jan 91 01:45:15 GMT
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A few issues back, BYTE surveyed the up-and-coming floppy
disk technologies.  Interesting stuff.  Especially the
20.8MB 3.5" Floptical part...

BYTE just featured one of these drives in 'Microbytes' (Jan. '91,
pg. 32) from Insite Peripherals.  At $325 each, and backward
compatibility with old 1.44 & 720K formats, this would seem
to solve a lot of our backup and distribution problems.

Perhaps this type of drive could be tweaked to support 2.88MB also.

I wouldn't be suprised to see NeXT shipping these drives early
this summer.  The way I see it, the 2.88MB format is just a
temporary stepping stone until the right technology arrives.

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Stuart Ritchie
sritchie@cs.ubc.ca