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From: chavez@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (R. Martin Chavez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of writes on an optifloppy
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Date: 13 Nov 88 07:43:58 GMT
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In article <568@poseidon.ATT.COM> ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>
>I posed your question to one of the Sony marketing types at Unix Expo in
>NYC last week: he said he'd been asked before, and one of the engineers
>thought about it a bit, filled up a couple of envelope-backs, and
>estimated the number of writes before breakdown at 1 to 10 million.
>
>Probably enough, if the estimate is correct.

NeXT uses the Canon drive, not Sony's.

R. Martin Chavez
Stanford Medical School