Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!sagpd1!monty From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk Keywords: Hard Disk, New Product, Hardware Message-ID: <290@sagpd1.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 88 18:38:10 GMT Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA Lines: 47 Here is a bit of news for everyone in quest of a hard disk for your Ami. In the August 11,1988 issue of Electronic Design there is an article on a new disk drive from Insite Peripherals. 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. The Name comes from the Fact that it uses a magnetic media like a normal floppy but has optical sync fields built into the media. The "diskettes" are factory formatted and are recored on at 1250 tpi. The drawback to this are they will go into your regualr drive and ANY! write by that drive will destroy the disk! The good news about these drives is they are to be priced less than $250.00 in OEM quanities and the disks are to be under $10.00 in OEM quanities. For those of you who don't know what OEM means, think LARGE. Still, they should show up at around $350-$400 in single quanities. Taint bad for a 20 meg shirt pocket sized media. CBM please look into these guys for us, OKAY?????? The destructive possibilities are a bit scary but I for one am ready to install RHD1:. The address and phone number given in the article are as follows: Insite Peripherals 2363 Calle del Mundo, Santa Clara, Ca. 95054 (408) 727-8484 James Adkission I hope this one is not vapor ware, it sounds good! Monty ************************************************************************** Oh Yes, Master Hartford is on what I hope is a permanent Vacation. This is not a Joke. I am not employed by, or otherwise compensated by, Insight Peripherials. Opinions expressed are strictly my own. **************************************************************************