Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!dali.cc.gatech.edu!ken From: ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: Floppy drives. Message-ID: <26268@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 14 Apr 91 21:16:01 GMT References: <13518@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Reply-To: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Organization: The House Of Fun Lines: 33 In article <13518@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes: > >Has anyone looked at flopticals lately? > I have...;') > >They're supposed to read 1.44mb >diskettes *and* store up to 25mbytes on special disks. I understand >(from some other conference around here) that these things should be shipping >to mere mortals sometime in Aug. Anyone know anything about this? > The only floptical that I know of is the Insite Peripherals I325VM. It holds 20.8MB of formatted data on special 3.5" disks and will read and write to standard 720K and 1.44MB floppies. They spec transfer at 1.6Mbits/sec. and a 65ms avg. seek time. It uses a SCSI interface, and is a 3.5" form factor. Arrow electronics is going to sell them, and will have them in June. The bare I325VM drive will cost $490. They also have an `Evaluation Kit' that includes drive, one disk, utility software, OEM and programmers manual and mounting hardware for $685. I dunno how much the special disks cost. I rather suspect that this thing will be a big hit in the Mac market, so the price should come down as volume ramps up. -- ken seefried iii ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu "If 'ya can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with..."