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
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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...
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