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From: jhaubric@mcs213a.cs.umr.edu (John Haubrich)
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Subject: Re: Are Flopticals Vaporware?
Summary: Insite says Commodore will sell their floptical
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Date: 26 Mar 91 21:23:51 GMT
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Howdy!  I called Insite today (26 Mar 91) and talked to one of their sales 
people.  She said evaluation units of their floptical would start shipping
on May 15 with OEM-only sales starting in August.  Her "best guess" at a
retail price was $600US for the drive and $20-$25 per floptical diskette.
She added that the company hopes to bring the price down to around $300 
within a year or so.

When I asked about Commodore-Amiga support, she said "Commodore has announced
that they're going to be one of our first OEM customers."  I guess that means
I have to wait until August to replace my Seacrate but that's OK since I have
no cash anyway :)

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