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From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: How about an optical drive interface for the 7300.
Message-ID: <2709@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 88 02:55:09 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
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} It sure would be nice to have a read/write magneto optical drive
} interfaced to the 7300 like the NeXT has.  256 megabytes of user
} data on a removeable cartridge the size of a 3 1/2" floppy would
} be great.

Removeable cartridges that cost $50 each!  And slow.

I'd much rather have a tape drive and a reasonable speed hard disk.

Richard