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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Best hard drive combo
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Date: 23 Jun 91 23:56:52 GMT
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In article <1991Jun23.052502.14425@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <1991Jun23.031308.26419@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) 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.

	AAAARGH.. It's SCSI... so it should work.. There seem to be 
very very very very rare exceptions, but just like ADB means it'll work
on the GS and Mac, SCSI means it'll work on any computer with a SCSI 
card/port.

	by the way, what is "aggresive" pricing? < $1000? (yeah right!)

	How fast is it? How many times can you read/write it? (I believe
many of the current r/w opticals have some limit)

	I'm still interested in trying one of these 20 or 40 meg floptical
drives.. they're reasonably fast, the media's cheap, and the media looks like
regular 3.5" floppies, not the big Syquest cartridges.
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