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Subject: Re: WORM drives
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Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 09:10:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 09:10:42 1987
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> For a PC, note that the most significant part of IBM's April PS/2-OS/2
> announcements (ignored, almost, by the computer press -- totally ignored
> by financial and popular press) was the WORM drive. 

Note that the drive (and media) has lower data storage capacity than
many of the competing 5-1/4" drives (200MB vs. 400MB per side) and only
single-sided media has been announced so far (I may be wrong on this 
second point).

The priciing of the drive itself is just slightly higher than the
competition (based on quantity 1).

Question: Does the drive have a SCSI interface? ... and is it a fairly
			conventional implementation?


Michael Herman
Optical Recording Corporation
141 John Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5V 2E4

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