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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FLOPTICAL(r) drives and the Amiga?
Summary: Make it standard
Message-ID: <406@antares.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 10:36:40 GMT
References: <4425@okstate.UUCP>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
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In article <4425@okstate.UUCP> bem@a.cs.okstate.edu (Blayne Mayfield) writes:
>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.

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

I read about this drive most recently in the March 1989 issue of that
well-known high-tech electronics magazine, Popular Science. :-) I recommend
this issue to those who enjoy a dose of "future shock" now and then. :-}

Anyway, if this drive can be made at a reasonable price, and is reliable, it
seems to me perfect for the problem of how to distribute "Dragon's Lair" size
programs. I imagine there are many program concepts (and not all games) that
remain concepts because they would be too badly cramped by an 880K
distribution medium. I hope Commodore considers making a drive like this
standard in upcoming machines, as well as an add-on to the existing models.
The sooner the better, I think.

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


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