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- From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
- Subject: Re: a question of storage
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:00:41 GMT
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- Brian Tao (90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA) wrote:
- : 1. Flopticals are smaller and a lot easier to carry around.
- : 2. An external floptical drive takes up less room.
- : 3. Media is cheaper on a per-megabyte basis.
- : 4. Will read MS-DOS 720K and MS-DOS/ProDOS/Mac 1.44-meg disks.
- : 5. Flopticals are newer, therefore they are more cool. :)
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- Ahem, from what I saw from Todd P. Whitesel's (?) post said that it will
- _NOT_ read Mac/ProDOS disks. I think he also said it wouldn't read MS-DOS
- disks.
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