Re: //gs & 1.44 megabyte drives

["John E. Townsend" <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

Mike Ford wrote:

> Anyone have more details on these flopticals? I think I may have actually
> seen one recently, but don't know what I should check to make sure.

I have one in a Tulin external enclosure.  It works well with my IIgs and
RamFAST interface.  One interesting feature of it is that it allows you to
use 3.5" PC floppies with a PC Transporter too (which incidentally gives you
the ability to write MS-DOS floppies on a IIgs).  I don't really need it much
anymore because all of my machines have FDHD drives on them, so I just have
it plugged into my Mac SE/30 which I use as a file server for my II's.  That
way I can share the floptical between all of my machines for backups and
such.  Using HardPressed, I never have any trouble putting a full 32MB volume
on a 21MB floptical.  I don't really think it's particularly well suited for
backups, though, since the disks are susceptible to bit rot over time.  Right
now I'm thinking of replacing it with a CD-R or MO drive.

--
John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Polyanna Principle
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