Re: Ramfast Card (rom versions)

[andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz)]

In article <1993Dec1.175725.5880@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>,
My name is... <k_bouchard@csc32.enet.dec.com> wrote:

[stuff nuked]

>Here's a dumb question: If these "FLOPTICAL" thingamajigs only hold 1440K when
>a regular 5 1/2 floppy holds 800k,why would I invest in one? (I thought they
>held a lot more. Aren't they built with laser technology?) Does it have to do
>with "multi-media"?
>Forgive these dumb questions,huh?
>
>Ken

First of all, "regular" 5 1/2 floppies don't exist.  Second, the floptical
"thingamajigs" don't "only hold" 1440K...they can "hold" 21MB; they also
happen to read and write 1.44MB format disks.  You would invest in one if
you like to store large amounts of data on a floppy-sized cartridge and/or
want to read and write Mac and IBM disks on your ][.  This would take the
place of a Superdrive & card and would double as a nice backup device or
hard drive.  Lastly, it has nothing to do with multimedia (as I hope you
can now see) unless someone writes mulitmedia stuff for the ][(gs) that
are a little less than 21MB in size and distributes it on floptical media;
this will most probably never happen.

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