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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Message-ID: <5481@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 11 Sep 88 21:43:44 GMT
References: <8720@cup.portal.com>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <8720@cup.portal.com>, Lee_-_Wells@cup.portal.com says:
> er, just how reliable is packing 20meg on a 3.5 inch floppy?

Understatement of the year: These are not ordinary floppies.

> WARM drives (Write And Read Many, ha!) are the future. too bad Tandy
> has the first, THOR, I never cared for Tandy much.

Tandy has gotten the most advertisement. However, C Ltd., I
understand, currently has a pre-production model of the Maxtor
read/write optical drive ( 1 gigabyte, 40ms access time). I have seen
the glossies for the Maxtor drives, and they look quite promising
(they're SCSI, by the way, so no problem there).

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