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From: bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Erasable Optical Disk
Message-ID: <157@tahoma.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 10:29:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 10:29:56 1987
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In article <342@novavax.UUCP>, jeff@novavax.UUCP (Jeff Bailey) writes:
> 
> Recently I noticed some discussion about connecting optical disks to
> the Amiga (specifically IBM's new drives).  I just thought that I would
> pass the following piece of information along.  It's from a recent issue
> of PC Week:
> 
... Jeff goes on to tell of Sony's 350M drive for over $6K.

That's a little expensive, isn't it?  I read in early '86 that Verbatim
had a prototype 3.5" erasable optical drive that held 40M, and they
expected it to be up to 100M by its planned late '87 release.  The
drive was supposed to cost $600-$1000 and disks $30 (I think I read this
in EE Times).  But then 9 months later I read that the release had slid
to early '88.

I've heard the erasable optical drives are slow but don't have any
numbers.  Anyone know what the ballpark average access times are?



Dave Bakken
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