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From: tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
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Subject: Re: 20 Meg Floppies
Message-ID: <1991May3.172155.10286@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 3 May 91 17:21:55 GMT
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In article <1991May3.103620.14757@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> ppham@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ( ) writes:
>I agree 2.88 is not much of an improvment over 1.44s and much of a disappointment after the 256Meg ODs. 20-80megs w/ decent access times sounds like the
>perfect solution.... 
> 
>How expensive are these 20-80 Disks projected to be ? 
> 
>When are these drives going to be ready ?
> 
>Wasn't IBM going to go for the 2.88s in a BIG way ? 
> 
>Toshiba & 3M seems to be spending A LOT of money advertizing about the 2.88s.


But there's one thing that concerns about these 20meg floppies...
Each disks must be factory formatted, which means any disk that
gets damaged during use will be useless unless sent back to the
factory - not very convenient.

Other than this point, I really like the drives(technically)





-TG