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From: rich@documail.UUCP (Rich McCallister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 88MB SyQuest (Was Re: 1.52MB drive)
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Date: 29 Apr 91 12:47:13 GMT
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In article <kgwg44+@rpi.edu> metahawk@itsgw.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby) writes:
>In article <1991Apr26.130902.24985@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>>  Just get a floptical drive. It is about $600, with 20 megs per disk, and
>>t uses standard 3.5 floppies also. Great for a second drive...
>
>Huh, where did you find this little gadget.  The cheapest 3.5 flopicals
>I've seen are in the $3000-4000 range and hold about 125 Megs.  I've
>never heard of any flopical drive that can accept normal disks.

    At the NCGA show in Chicago last week, Commodore was sharing a booth with
a distributor that was showing a 20 Meg floptical 3.5" floptical drive. They
said the price was about $600 (I forget the exact amount), and that the media
cost about $20 each. I *think* they said it would also read standard 880K
floppies, but am not positive. It had an imbedded SCSI controller.