caroma@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Carl R. Manning) (12/24/90)
In article <GESSEL.90Dec21113515@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> gessel@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) writes: >[Stuff about using double sided OD's in single sided drives] > >NeXT seems to be the only one using single sided OD's. > >Canon sells double sided to a larger market, so the double sided ones >are cheaper. A single sided drive and a double sided OD is better than >a single sided drive and a single sided OD. Single sided drives might >be on their way out, but those of us who have them can still use them >with double sided disks (an get just as much total storage). So... with `everyone' finding it cheapter to get their hard disks from third parties, has anyone looked into whether it is possible, practical, and/or affordable to get a double sided OD drive from a third party and put it into an OD-less cube or attach it externally to a slab? Just a thought. Cheers, caroma@ai.mit.edu