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From: frontah@rpi.edu (David J Sotnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: new optical disks
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Date: 28 Jun 91 02:15:07 GMT
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Yes, the IBM Read/Write Optical drive is out, and should now be available
throught Authorised IBM dealers. The list price I think is $1700 and the media
is around $50. That is 127Mb Formatted Capacity. The drive is SCSI and
obviously requires a SCSI host adapter, or one of the new Model 57SX's with
SCSI on the motherboard.

If you have any questions on this product, let me know.

David Sotnick
IBM Optical/Tape Storage Development Dept., Boca Raton, FL.