steve@cs.UAlberta.CA (Steve Sutphen) (07/03/90)
<someone writes: name deleted as I don't feel this is a personal comment> > >Is this really a "rumor"? I was under the impression that NeXT was already >delivering a version of the Cube w/out either hard-disk or floptical. ^^^^^^^^^ >... Please people, it is not a floptical that is on a standard NeXT computer. A "floppy" disk was so called to differentiate it from a "disk" (they were not called "hard-disks" until long after floppies came into existance). There is such a thing as a floptical that is a floppy disk with, I seem to recall, servo tracks that are optically read (for tracking only, the data is still read magnetically by head contact). These flopticals are being developed to put more information on a slightly modfied floppy disk. I cannot remember the name of the company (or companies) that are doing this development. Don't bother to post followups to this unless you have FACTS. A Cannon/NeXT Optical disk is about as "floppy" as yoru average manhole cover. steve.