Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!anarch From: anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (The Anarch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: "floptical" drive questions (was IIgs. Whats happening....) Message-ID: <1991Apr14.202548.20064@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: 14 Apr 91 20:25:48 GMT References: <14448@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: Secular Humanists from Hell Lines: 20 In article whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) writes: >The Insite drive hold only around 20MB, and is/was suppose to cost about $250 >or so. I think Brier took over teh 20MB drive, I don't know full story, I use >to keep on both type of drive. In article <14448@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >[...] > Anyway, the floptical drive is A MUCH MUCH MUCH better deal. >For LESS money, you get the drive, which is at most 1/2 the size of >the Syquest-based drives. This month's MacUser has a brief report on the floptical drives as part of an article on large-capacity removable media and says that they are due out very soon but gives a price of around $750 for them. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-anarch@dartmouth.edu+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. D I S C L A I M E R : E V E R Y T H I N G I W R I T E I S F A L S E