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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
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	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

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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.

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