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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Keywords: Hard Disk, New Product, Hardware
Message-ID: <12066@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 09:07:31 GMT
References: <290@sagpd1.UUCP> <2515@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 22

In article <2515@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>In article <290@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
>> ...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.

>If it did become a standard, think of games with 20 MB of images, sound and 
>code...


And you though Marble Madness took a long time to load in between
screens...





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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP