ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) (02/26/89)
In the January Macworld under the new products section there is mention of Insite Model I325 Floptical Disk Drive. It connects to the SCSI port and each disk can hold 25MB of unformatted memory (20.8MB of formatted memory). It will sell for about $500 Does anyone know of this drive (beta testers or what not) or any similar drives? Reliability, availability? I called them (408-727-8484) and a technical dude told me I'd get a call on Monday. He quoted 65 ms access time. Maybe we can get an internal floptical, next to the ordinary floppy. It would be great for backing up my hard drive. I guess I'll find out about the price of each disk on Monday. If anyone's interested, I'll post that info.
ryan (Ryan Jorgenson) (09/28/89)
Has anyone had experience with the "microtronics Trade Service" TESS I325
FLOPTICAL drive? Our company looked into these about a year ago (the original
manufacturer, Insite Peripherals, CA), and they looked quite useful, if they
weren't vaporware. (For those of you that don't know, a FLOPTICAL drive is
a MAGNETO-OPTICAL floppy disk, that uses optical markers to identify tracks.
By using the optical markers, the track density can be increased dramatically.
In the case of the I325, they claim to be able to put 20MB on a
3-1/2" floppy.) The ad I saw was in the lattest Byte Issue.
If you are using these, or know where you can get them in Canada
(or the U.S., but Canada would be better), I'm sure their are a few
people interested...
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ryan@amc-vlsi.uucp | Ryan Jorgenson
ryan@amc-vlsi.ucalgary.ca | The Alberta Microelectronic Centre
| Calgary, Alberta Canadals1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) (10/01/89)
Could you forward any information you find to me? I am very interested in these floptical drives. I am posting this message because the original poster (Ryan Jorgenson) has an ambiguous host, according to my host. Len Schultz