Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a186 From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: An inquiry regarding the new Panasonic 3511 floppy drive Message-ID: <533@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:59:50 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 40 Last spring there was a report of a new floppy drive from Panasonic, Model#3511, with some pretty goods stats. The 1989 March 13 issue of INFOWORD on page 30 has an article "PANASONIC INDUSTRIAL ANNOUNCES LARGE-CAPACITY FLOPPY DISK DRIVE" written by Patricia Pane. Trans-Ami V2-#5, page 8 says: +--------- | Panasonic has announced an 11 Meg 3.5" floppy! The Panasonic | 3511 comes equipped with an embedded SCSI controller that | includes a self formatting function. It uses a special metal | disk and micro stepping motor to get 640 tracks on the special | disks. The controller is also capable of read only operations | on a standard 3.5" floppy disk. Averge access time is reported | to be 60 ms and track to track time is reported to be less than | 10 ms. Production quantities are scheduled to be available by | July of this year and the list price is expected to be $250. +--------- In August I wrote to Panasonic, I have not received an answer. Panasonic in Canada has not heard of the device. The address given in the InfoWorld article is: Panasonic Industrial Co. Memory Systems Division 1600 McCandless Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 262-2200 +--------- [end of background;-)] Has anybody actually seen one of these? <-Harvey PS. CBM: Yet another reason to get scsidisk.i|h functional... "There is nothing to fear, but me." -Pappoon Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.UUCP