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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: 20 meg. floppy drive
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Date: 31 Jan 91 02:15:25 GMT
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I was doing a trade technical magazine search in the Lexis/Nexis data base
of Mead Data Central and found an article about high capacity floppies.

Here is a device that I found under the key word search "floptical"-


holds about 22 megs per disk
65 ms access time
uses 3.5" disks that are specially formatted with an opticly read pattern
   on some sort of barrium oxide media.
reads and writes magneticly
uses a scsi interface
downward compatible with 720k & 1.44m.

the cost: $795.00
and about $10 per preformatted disk.


The article said that it would be available this April.
I think I want 10 of 'em.

Does anyone know anything about this? 
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Douglas Bell
dab6@po.cwru.edu