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- From: Kenneth.Goh@f357.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Kenneth Goh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Floptical Drive
- Message-ID: <722312746.AA01621@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:27:03
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- CC>From: chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns)
- CC>Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- CC>Eric Lambert (esl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote: : I read in a
- CC>magazine yesterday about a new (?) disk for IBM's. : It is the size
- CC>of a 3.5" disk, but optical, so the TPI is : somewhere over 1000. It
- CC>stores 21MB of data, and each disk costs : about $25. The drives are
- CC>standard size 3.5" drives and can : read/write to 720K. 1.44meg, and
- CC>21meg Floptical disks. All for : about $500. Is this new? Does it
- CC>work? Does anyone have one? : : Thanks. : : -------- : Eric
- CC>Lambert esl1@cornell.edu
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- CC> It exists. Relatively new. Rumor has it that it will go to ~40 meg
- CC> soon. One of these technologies which has been "coming" for a long time.
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- CC> Consider however that floptical is (I believe) much slower and has less
- CC> capacity than either a Bernoulli Drive or a Syquest/SyDos drive! Both
- CC> of those can be gotten in the 88-90 Megabyte range for ~$500. The
- CC> removable media is ~$110 a pop for ~90 meg so it is slightly more
- CC> expensive per byte but faster and larger. The 44 Meg Bernoulli and
- CC> Syquest drives are less $$ and the media is also less $$. Beroulli
- CC> claims that their media is very impervious to shock. I think Syquest is
- CC> somewhat faster.
- CC> (see ads in Computer Shopper, Hard Drives Intl for examp)
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- I don't believe it is slower. It (the floptical) uses a SCSI interface
- which enables it to actually read and write faster than the usual 1.44M
- drive. After all, it has to for it to be a competitive product - who
- wants a snail of a product!
-
- I take it that you're talking US$ here 'cause of the impossible price of
- $500 for a Bernoulli Drive in Aussie Dollars. In this case, then the
- $500 tag on a floptical seems high compared to DownUnder because it
- comes to A$770, when it is actually selling for close to A$700, though
- I've heard of getting it for A$550 with some "arm-twisting".
- ■ SLMR 2.0 ■ ■ Seeing is believing ...
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