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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Message-ID: <6888@well.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 18:56:34 GMT
References: <290@sagpd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Total Terran Technological Togetherness
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Quote: "Men, take Binkley's head."  -- Coach Bloom

In article <290@sagpd1.UUCP> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>	In the August 11,1988 issue of Electronic Design there is an article
>on a new disk drive from Insite Peripherals. This new drive is called a
>"Floptical" disk drive. It is a 20.8 Mbyte removable media, 3 1/2 ", scsi
>interfaced, 65ms. access time hard disk. The removable Media is the same 
>formfactor as your current 3 1/2" drive.  [ ... ] The drawback
>to this are they will go into your regualr drive and ANY! write by that drive
>will destroy the disk!
>
	Well, I just called these guys to find out more, largely because
Monty's posting left me confused.  I thought he was talking about read-only
magnetic storage, but it's a bit more interesting than that.

	The drive takes a specially formatted 3.5" floppy on which it can
store 20M.  This can be read or written.  In addition, the drive can read
ordinary 3.5" floppies, but it can't write to them.

	They're projecting samples available late this year, and production
early next year.

	Sounds neat.

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