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From: simon@cheshire (Thor Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FLOPTICAL(r) drives and the Amiga?
Summary: I've seen one
Keywords: sort of,FLOPITCAL,5 1/4,many problems
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Date: 27 Feb 89 21:26:00 GMT
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I saw a 5 1/4 in 10 meg drive using standard DS/QD 5 1/4 disks at last year's 
New York AmiExpo.  Apparently you have to keep the disks _ULTRA_ clean in 
plastic baggies or the like and I was told by another bystander that on 
an IBM he'd used a similar drive, and found that the only way to preserve the
data was to run an air cleaner while changing disks...  Also it was HUGE,
about the size of an A500.