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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM for OS/2 ?
Keywords: WORM or Erasable
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Date: 22 Jan 91 00:15:55 GMT
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This month's (Dec 90/Jan 91) OS/2 and Windows Magazine reviews the Iomega
LaserSafe.  It's magneto-optical based.

From their Info File and Snapshot:
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Iomega
1821 West 4000 South
Roy, UT  84067
(800) 456-5222

Subsystem: $4,999
Media:  $299 (per disk)
MCA:  $399
ISA:  $265
[This uses a SCSI interface and can share - chain - with other devices.]

Runs only under OS/2 for now.  (So there!)

Highlights:
	improved security
	595.2 MB [double sided disks - manual side change]
	compact  [10.33"x10.33"x4.88"]
	Winchester interface [as opposed to WORM-style]
	fast access [avg. access 66.7 msecs.]
	10 year media use [need to be destructively verified periodically]


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For the same cost you could get a BIG hard drive and have some money left over
for the DAT drive to back it up to.

I suppose the removeable media is of interest to some.  Also, it's quite rugged.

I'm holding out for 1Gig and up...


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Kyler Laird                  I'm  the NRA             ky@en.ecn.purdue.edu