Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rewriteable Optical Disks
Message-ID: <7896@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 89 14:11:15 GMT
References: <2817@zaphod.UUCP> <7018@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran)
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In article <7018@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Robert Rubinoff) writes:
>In article <2817@zaphod.UUCP> garyb@zaphod.UUCP (Gary Berg) writes:
>>Has anyone heard about a 600 MB rewritable optical disk drive for the Mac?
>
>This is probably not the same as what you heard about, but the Feb 89 MacUser
>has an ad for the REO-650, a 650 MB removable erasable optical disk from 
>Pinnacle Micro.  I don't know if it's actually available, but they've got a
>picture of the drive box and a cartridge, so it's probably not vaporware.

Maxtor announced a drive about three months ago along this line; 650 Mb
using a proposed ISO standard formatting, and a full 1 Gb using a vendor-
proprietary format.  Access time was given in the 30 ms range, as I
recall.  They also announced a half-height 3.5" M/O cartridge disk with
I believe 150 Mb capacity.  OEM cost of the big drive was around $3500,
about $1200 on the small one.

All this comes from recollection of press releases seen in two or three
trade magazines; any or all of the specs may be off.

						Bob Halloran
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