osborn@ut-emx.UUCP (John H. Osborn) (04/25/89)
Are there any plans for NeXT to offer a second optical drive? Such a drive would be significantly cheaper than having buy the 330mb hard drive to have enough storage. I remember BYTE estimating the cost of a second optifloppy (grin) at something like $1000. So, does the optical controller circuitry have the capacity to control a second drive? If not, would the addition of a second optical drive still be possible, perhaps through an expansion card? Would such a move be silly, considering the speed of the optical? We can only hope that the reported 0.9 speed increases are true. -John Osborn UTexas Computation Center User Services
osborn@gt-emx.mUCP (John H. Osborn) (04/26/89)
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