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From: davidc@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Summary: a few more bits from EE Times
Message-ID: <6343@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 28 Aug 88 02:29:27 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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The story so far, from postings quoting Electronics Design (August 11):
20.8 Mbyte unformatted, 3.5" removable media with same form factor as
your 3.5" floppy, SCSI, 65ms access.

In article <6888@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Well, I just called these guys to find out more...
>In addition, the drive can read ordinary 3.5" floppies, but it can't write
>to them.

Looks like they're making improvements fast!

According to the article in EE Times (August 22):

	"...the drives cannot read traditional low-density 3.5" floppies,
	even though they use the same form factor.  But Adkisson [pres.
	of Insite Peripherals] said the company will be introducing drives
	that can read and write traditional disks in the future, and will
	be improving the density and performance..."

Elsewhere they mention it is "...a technology that is easily scalable to
100-Mbyte disks in the near future."

Although a 20 meg removable itself is wonderful, I think I'll wait till it
can double as a 2nd floppy.  I've always hated the fact that, even when
you get a hard drive, there are still times you need a second floppy.  This
will solve that problem.  It will also be a great way to back up those huge
hard drives that are supposed to become so cheap in the next year.

David Carter		davidc@pyr.gatech.edu