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From: Lee_-_Wells@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
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Date: 3 Sep 88 15:02:41 GMT
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er, just how reliable is packing 20meg on a 3.5 inch floppy?
I have enough trouble with the normal 3.5 inch floppies crashing after
a couple of moinths of hard usage. I can see it now:
'error validating disk. use disk doctor to correct it' ....3 days later..

but seriously, it does sound nice, kinda like a mini bernouli box, eh?
has anyone out there heard of digital paper?
digital paper is a very low cost optical storage media that is only
read only at this time but hopes to be read writable soon
should make 3.5 inch floppies like the floptical drive really optical, eh?
instead of magnetic.
WARM drives (Write And Read Many, ha!) are the future. too bad Tandy
has the first, THOR, I never cared for Tandy much.
Lee Wells