mdl@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael D. Landis) (01/16/91)
Check out the January 1991 issue of IEEE's Spectrum Magazine, page 35. There is a discussion of the current state of "superfloppy" diskette drives. Maybe this information will dispell some of the speculation and negative thinking that I have seen on the net regarding high capacity floppy drives. I will summarize briefly what the exerpt says: 20MB capacity drive packaged in a std 1" high 3.5" wide form factor. Insite Peripherals, model I325VM showed at Comdex, showed a year earlier, but since modified to read/write 720K 1.44M format diskettes. Designed to plug inot SCSI host adapers, unit goes into production next April. In volume cost is $325 each. Arrow Electronics closed non-exclusive deal to distribute in US. IBM eyeing them for the PS/2s Brier Technology and Citizen America Corp also developing drives now, have joined to establish standard format for the drives. I don't think it will be a long time before these drives come out. And since they are cheap and small, they will obviously become the standard floppy medium of the next phase of cheap floppy storage. I'm sure NeXT will have them in their machines as soon as they can get them in there. -- Mike Landis, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27706 Internet: mdl@macbeth.cs.duke.edu Phone: 919-660-6520 or 919-493-0559