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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.oz.au
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Subject: Re: floppies for the pc532
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Date: 17 Apr 91 14:10:28 GMT
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randy hyde writes:
 > One suggestion, there are several manufacturers coming out with
 > 2.88mbyte SCSI floppy disk drives (for the NeXT).  They're somewhat
 > expensive right now ($300-$600) but I suspect the price will start
 > coming down soon since IBM is planning to adopt the 2.88 mbyte format. 
 > Of course, they read 1.44 and 720K diskettes.  I would kinda' suggest
 > that if we're trying to form a PC532 standard we adopt the
 > state-of-the-art, even if it is a little more expensive.

Depends what you want it for. Personally, I don't have a lot of use
for a floppy, but it would be nice to allow friends to transfer
stuff to/from PC's. If I want high capacity I'll use my tape drive.
Even 25MB for the "flopticals" is not very good for backups. I guess
I would go for them if they were cheap enough, but strange as it might
sound, I am only prepared to pay a *very* small premium for 25MB over
1.4MB. My idea is to get a dirt cheap floppy and save my pennies for
a DAT or Exabyte.

Ian