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From: emv@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: new floppies / words of Roy Bean regarding PS2s
Message-ID: <1666@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 12:46:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 12:46:56 1987
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Keywords: Kodak, sheep-stealing, Kaypro, Robie
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In article <537@parcvax.Xerox.COM> burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton) writes:
% In article <769@imsvax.UUCP> bob@imsvax.UUCP (Bob Burch) writes:
% >by most dealers for around $350, the controller board for about $130.  Boxes
% >of the 6 meg floppies are going for about $100 (5/box), and will come down as
% >sales increase.  Disk speeds are comparable to a slow hard disk.  This is 
% >
% >Ted Holden
% 
% Forgive my astonishment.  Now that I've stopped laughing, I have to ask you
% to back up that statement about PS/2 owners not geting access to the new
% Kodak floppies.

If I remember right, PS/2 owners are going to want to stay away from the
"new" Kodak floppies.  These mutants have been around for a while; there
was a machine from Kaypro called the "Robie" (huh?), a cp/m machine, that
used them a couple years ago.  Word was they were slow, unreliable, and
media was expensive and hard to find.  ($20 for a 6 meg floppy?  I'm not
going to pay $20 for any magnetic medium unless it's got a metal shell
around it.  No way.)  PS/2 (and real ms-dos machines hopefully soon) already
have access to 1.4 meg 3 1/2" media using normal technology.

If anyone from Kodak is on the net, please prove me wrong; it would be real
great to back up my 20 meg hard disk with 4 floppies.  But what do I 
back up the floppies with?!



Edward Vielmetti, U-Michigan Workstation Group, Ann Arbor MI  48109
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