Re: Floptical

[platkus@iunet (Shawn Platkus)]

Dave Harvey (daveharv@pro-tiger.cts.com) wrote:
: In <9cgXFc1w165w@shakala.com> wily@shakala.com (Paul Creager) writes:

: >daveharv@pro-tiger.cts.com (Dave Harvey) writes:
: >
: >> Their price is $375 plus $5.00 shipping (ground shipment).
: >> 
: >> Second Wave, Inc.
: >
: >And does it include at least one floptical diskette?  The Tulin deal 
: >includes one (or two?) plus a driver if you need it.  Plus they are 
: >knowledgable about the Apple II.  Can you say that about "Second Wave"?
: >
: >Just curious.

: Yes, it includes a preformatted 21MB Floptical diskette with the driver
: software already installed (which doesn't do you much good since it's a
: Macintosh forma).  The diskette would have to be reformatted for ProDOS.

: For $399 you can get a SCSI cable as well.  The price list I have is dated
: July 1993 so the prices might have changed.

If you don't need compatibilty with a normal 3.5" floppy, you might want to
consider a magneto optical 3.5" disk drive.  Each disk holds 128 MB, but you
can't use a normal 3.5" disk in it.  You can get the Fujitsu DynaMO 128MB 
for $900.00.  That's just twice the price of a floptical for six times the
storage!  You get one disk and the SCSI cable.  I have one on my GS, and it
works great!  It is even faster than my hard drive.

-Shawn
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