sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) (01/07/91)
A few issues back, BYTE surveyed the up-and-coming floppy disk technologies. Interesting stuff. Especially the 20.8MB 3.5" Floptical part... BYTE just featured one of these drives in 'Microbytes' (Jan. '91, pg. 32) from Insite Peripherals. At $325 each, and backward compatibility with old 1.44 & 720K formats, this would seem to solve a lot of our backup and distribution problems. Perhaps this type of drive could be tweaked to support 2.88MB also. I wouldn't be suprised to see NeXT shipping these drives early this summer. The way I see it, the 2.88MB format is just a temporary stepping stone until the right technology arrives. --- Stuart Ritchie sritchie@cs.ubc.ca