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From: bem@a.cs.okstate.edu (Blayne Mayfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FLOPTICAL(r) drives and the Amiga?
Message-ID: <4425@okstate.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 17:07:23 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater
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I recently received some literature from Insite Peripherals describing their
new I325 FLOPTICAL(r) drive.  By using optical tracking on special 3-1/2 inch
floppy disks they can store about 20Mbytes on one disk.  I saw a short article
about these drives in some magazine earlier, and they speculated that the
disks would initially cost about $8 apiece.

It a letter accompanying the literature, Insite claims that they will begin
delivering these drives to OEM customers in May/June, 1989 (beta testing is
scheduled to end in March, 1989).  They go on to say that they will not be
selling the product to dealers or end-users, but they expect it to be
available to the retail or end-user market in summer, 1989.

Has anyone else heard anything more about these?  It seems like it would be
a great little add-on for the Amiga.


Blayne Mayfield

"If I see one more mandrel image, I'll go ape!"