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From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
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Subject: Re: Are Flopticals Vaporware?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 17:28:00 GMT
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In article <48596@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Rasiel) says:

>drive that can use regular 3.5" floppies or special 20 meg disks? If this
>product ever hits the shelf I cannot see why in the world anyone would ever
>need a hard drive. Unless of course this special media is too expensive.

Well, for one thing the floptical is much slower than a typical hard drive.
Another problem is that the media wears out in a month if you use it like
a hard drive. (According to a user of a 10MB 51/4 drive). Also, it's fairly
expensive (>$300 in 1000s). For that price you could get an 80MB hard drive,
at least. The media is supposed to be very cheap, though (eventually).

On the other hand, like everyone else, I want one. :-)

-- Dan Babcock