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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mass Storage Devices Info request
Message-ID: <1743@pur-phy>
Date: 19 Dec 88 20:18:31 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
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Pointers..hmmm... let`s see. 
In the latest issue of Computer Technology Review`s newpaper, Volume 8 #15
pages 1, 37, and 38 there is an article and an advertisement aboutnewly
released floptical drive systems.  The article references Sony, Cantor and
Maxtor with capacities ranging from 256-512 (Canon) 650-1000 (Maxtor), and 
594 (Sony) Megabytes.  Holy LaserBits Batman, that`s a lot of memory.
That`s right Robin, they wnat lots of $$ for them $4659-6000.

Maxtor has the fastest seek time 35ms and transfer rate of 1Mbyte/sec.
Sony and Maxtor comply with ISO and ANSI standards for optical disk drives.

The Advertisement was for Pioneer (that`s right the ones who make stereos,
lessee, I want three knobs no wait this one has 4 knobs and costs $10.00 more)
Anyhow, it has 650MByte capacity, comes in internal 1/2height or full height
and controller, or external expandable (I knew they`d make a product line
out of it) subsytem with the ability to go to 1.3Gbytes.
It uses a standard SCSI interface and access time <60ms (so they claim).
Call or write Pioneer Communications of America Inc.
	      Optical Memory Products Division
	      1058 East 230th Street
	      Carson, California 90475
	      (213) 513-1016
Bill Murphy