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From: ray@ole.UUCP (Ray Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 2.88 Mb floppy drives for PC
Keywords: ED
Message-ID: <2002@ole.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 91 16:41:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: ole.2002
References: <1991Jun13.131011.2510@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Seattle Silicon Corp., Bellevue, WA.
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hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:

>Now when MS-DOS 5.00 is out, and supports the new, nifty Extended Density
>(ED) 3.5" floppy disks with 2.88 Mb capacity, is there somewhere one can
>get a drive and controller for such a beast?

	Can't help on the hardware, but I'll warn you that I saw an article
qouting prices for 2.88 MB media that were *very* high- looks like a replay
of the scenario we had when 1.44 3 1/2" drives came out- blank floppies were
going for $5-6 *each*.
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