Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 88MB SyQuest (Was Re: 1.52MB drive) Message-ID: <1991May1.170657.5579@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 1 May 91 17:06:57 GMT References: <6msga2-@rpi.edu> <1991Apr26.130902.24985@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 37 In article 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... >> >> >>-- >> David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce >> Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) >> >> Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia. > >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. >(Of course if your info. is true, I think I could order a few 100.) > > "Anything is possible" Metahawk > Any guesses? metahawk@rpi.edu I first heard about it last November. But at the New York World of Amiga show I saw the drive with my own eyes. It uses optical 3.5 inch disks, that look nearly identical to your stanbdard 3.5 floppies (df0:, df1:). They store 20 megs per optical floppy. The drive reads/writes to 880k floppies as well. It is a SCSI device, with 65ms access (better than a floppy or most optical drives anyway). It is the same size as an internal floppy, but if used externally then it does have a larger case. The cost is $600 internal, and $750 external. I think the company is called Digital Micronics. They also make some sort of 60 mhz graphics/video board. -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.