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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!dcw-a
- From: dcw-a@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Removable mass storage (Syquest,Flopticals...)
- Keywords: Archimedes World
- Message-ID: <722260463.8150@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:54:24 GMT
- References: <BxAJJs.ro@brunel.ac.uk> <5593@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1992Nov19.195618.364@logica.co.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- In article <1992Nov19.195618.364@logica.co.uk> blacka@logica.co.uk writes:
- >In article <5593@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
- >
- >> The nice thing about flopticals is that they handle all the useful 3.5"
- >> magnetic floppies too.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >NB I have RISCOS3.1 on a 420 (in case that is relevant)
- >
- >Andrew Black
-
- Well, according to _Archimedes World_ none of the floptical drives available
- for the arc at this time can cope with normal magnetic media. Bit of a bummer really.
- Although I must admit the source of this information isn't exactly famous for accuracy...
-
-
- Doug.
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