Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!hubcap!rchampe
From: rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Message-ID: <2958@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 19:48:29 GMT
References: <8720@cup.portal.com> <5481@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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In article <5481@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
> > 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).
>
 
    From what I read in Radio Electronics, the special thing about Tandy's
read/write optical drives is that they'll be compatable with audio compact 
discs.  Also, Tandy didn't develop it, they merely bought the rights from
a research lab in Oregon.

> Eric Lee Green    ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg


Rich Champeaux
Clemson University