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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Best hard drive combo
Message-ID: <54262@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Jun 91 09:09:57 GMT
References: <16490@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Jun23.031308.26419@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun23.052502.14425@utstat.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun23.052502.14425@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:

>Does anyone know if the "new" IBM 3.5" read/write optical( which contains
>128megs/cartridge and has a reasonable access time and good throughput, and
>is priced very agressively) is supported by either of these cards?
>
>Note: The IBM "removable" is a SCSI drive.

If it's SCSI, then it will probably work with the Apple DMA SCSI card.  Apple
followed the ANSI SCSI specification very closely, and as long as IBM's drive
comes reasonably close to the SCSI spec, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

No, I haven't seen/used one, and yes this is just conjecture.  If someone
actually has one of the new IBM opticals, try it out and see.

andy

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