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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!logica!blacka
- From: blacka@logica.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Removable mass storage (Syquest,Flopticals...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.195618.364@logica.co.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:56:18 GMT
- References: <BxAJJs.ro@brunel.ac.uk> <5593@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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- In article <5593@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
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- > The nice thing about flopticals is that they handle all the useful 3.5"
- > magnetic floppies too.
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- I have heard it said that flopticals are unable to handle
- high density disks (eg 1.4M DOS disks). Can anyone clarify
- this? I am tossing up between Syquest and Flopticals.
- The ability to read/write 1.4M disks from work could swing
- the balance.
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- NB I have RISCOS3.1 on a 420 (in case that is relevant)
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- Andrew Black
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