dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (05/03/91)
I haven't heard about 20 Meg floppies....Do they use the barrium-ferrite coating? If so, would it be possible to just retool the drives in current machines? And where did you read about this? I get BYTE, but didn't see mentino in the latest issue. *I'm* waiting for phase-change optical drives to hit mainstram; which they should, with a vengeance. It's my personal hope that NeXT will support these as a mass-storage medium.... -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /
melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (05/03/91)
In article <1991May3.061129.6444@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes:
And where did you read about this? I get BYTE, but didn't see mentino in
the latest issue. *I'm* waiting for phase-change optical drives to hit
mainstram; which they should, with a vengeance. It's my personal hope that
NeXT will support these as a mass-storage medium....
There was in an article in Byte Magazine last fall. We should be
hearing more about the drives by this summer. They sound like they
should satify software distribution problems for 10 years or so. And
let's not forget the problem of backuping up the NeXT. You aren't
going to do that on a CD-ROM.
-Mike