bentrup@p.cs.uiuc.edu (12/17/88)
I'm looking for pointers to mass storage devices, specifically removable
disks, WORMs and electro-optical devices (I think the last item is correct,
if I remember the short blurb I saw, it's akin to a WORM but can be
rewritten many times).
I've seen the Sep88 PC-Mag article on removable hard drives and the Feb88
Byte on WORMs. I hope someone can point me to other articles.
Thanks. john
John Bentrup
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Computer Science
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I seldom read my mail so please post here. :-)murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (12/20/88)
Pointers..hmmm... let`s see. In the latest issue of Computer Technology Review`s newpaper, Volume 8 #15 pages 1, 37, and 38 there is an article and an advertisement aboutnewly released floptical drive systems. The article references Sony, Cantor and Maxtor with capacities ranging from 256-512 (Canon) 650-1000 (Maxtor), and 594 (Sony) Megabytes. Holy LaserBits Batman, that`s a lot of memory. That`s right Robin, they wnat lots of $$ for them $4659-6000. Maxtor has the fastest seek time 35ms and transfer rate of 1Mbyte/sec. Sony and Maxtor comply with ISO and ANSI standards for optical disk drives. The Advertisement was for Pioneer (that`s right the ones who make stereos, lessee, I want three knobs no wait this one has 4 knobs and costs $10.00 more) Anyhow, it has 650MByte capacity, comes in internal 1/2height or full height and controller, or external expandable (I knew they`d make a product line out of it) subsytem with the ability to go to 1.3Gbytes. It uses a standard SCSI interface and access time <60ms (so they claim). Call or write Pioneer Communications of America Inc. Optical Memory Products Division 1058 East 230th Street Carson, California 90475 (213) 513-1016 Bill Murphy