Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk Keywords: Hard Disk, New Product, Hardware Message-ID: <2515@sugar.uu.net> Date: 20 Aug 88 15:33:39 GMT References: <290@sagpd1.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 18 In article <290@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes: > ...This new drive is called a > "Floptical" disk drive. It is a 20.8 Mbyte removable media, 3 1/2 ", scsi > interfaced, 65ms. access time hard disk. The removable Media is the same > formfactor as your current 3 1/2" drive. Yeah, this is in EE Times this week, too. The way it would be of *incredible* use to Amiga owners would be if it became the standard floppy drive for new Amigas and backward-compatible versions were sold for existing Amis. I know that's not likely to happen, but it would be really nice. If it didn't become such a standard, it wouldn't be of use for distributing software, tho' still of use of course to people who had them. If it did become a standard, think of games with 20 MB of images, sound and code... -- -- -- Karl Lehenbauer, karl@sugar.uu.net aka uunet!sugar!karl, +1 713 274 5184