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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Availability of flopticals?
Message-ID: <315@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 08:08:06 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Our department is looking for a high-capacity removeable media storage
device, with good reliability and a low cost per media cartridge.  From
what I have hear, floptical drives (which use magnetic discs similar to
floppies, but with embedded optical tracks for tracking) would be ideal,
but I see none on the Macintosh market yet.  Does anyone have any idea
when these will arrive?

Thanks for the help.  Please reply by e-mail--due to the high volume of
this newsgroup, I can no longer read it.  I will, however, mail summaries
to anyone who sends a request, and if there is sufficient interest, will
post a summary.
	
Ken McDonald
{mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca}