p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) (04/07/90)
In article <7619@latcs1.oz.au> barton@latcs1.oz.au (The Wasp) writes: >Can this be true. A 600 meg disc for the AMIGA? >And is it really OPTICAL. What is the price on this article of amazement? >I would love to know more and I think a lot of other avid amiga users would like >to know to!!! Actually, it is 'magneto-optical', the information is hold magnetic as with usual hard disks. But the writing and reading has to be done with some assistance of a laser beam to focus on smaller parts of the disk. We are running several boxes with our Sun and Dec machines. Cost is about 8000,- DM (about $4500) for the drive. The disks are 600,- DM (about $350). A company in germany sells such a drive for the Amiga for 10000,- DM. -- Michael van Elst p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de