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
trims@athena.mit.edu (Erik G Trimble) (04/30/91)
Has anyone here hear about the new floptical drive? I'm NOT talking about magento-optical/optical cartridge drives that've been around for a while. What this is is a drive similar to Apple's SuperDrive in that it read/writes floppy disks AND special 20MB floppies. I read about it in the back of a MacWorld mag and wondered if anyone could point me to the maker. I'm especially interested if the drive can read 2.88Mb floppies - I'd like to get one for my NeXT. Any info would be helpful please e-mail me as I do not read this group. Erik trims@athena.mit.edu