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From: thomas@sertne.Dayton.NCR.COM (Scott A. Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.6 meg drives and the Amiga
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 16:53:45 EST
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In article <4534@zen.berkeley.edu> c164-1bj@cordelia.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman) writes:
>The elation in switching from Apple 143K disks to Amiga 880K disks has now
>worn off, and I am once again becoming greedy.
>
>I want the 1.6 meg high-density microfloppies.
>
>
>	*&Jonathan Dubman
>	Busy Berkeley CS student with a semantic analyzer due Wednesday


My question is why stop at 1.6 meg?  I just read that some companies are about
to release 3.5" floppy drives that use regular double sided/double density
media and will hold 10 MEG!!!!!   That's right 10MEGABYTES.

These drives have a SCSI interface and a 35ms seek time.  They are quoted
as retailing for about $500-$700 for the average user and lower for OEM's.
The articles I read said that and American company was doing this but several
Japanese companies were also working on the format.  They also said that
20 MB was not out of the question.  The other big plus is that is used regular
off the shelf media and not special media like the Kodak drives.

I personally cann't wait to get my hands on one of these babies and then I 
can get a 200+ MB hard drive to go along with it. 1/2 :-)  

Deliveries are supposed to start in January.


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