Re: Floptical

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

Dave Harvey (daveharv@pro-tiger.cts.com) wrote:
: In <2hch6q$4mv@condor.ic.net> platkus@iunet (Shawn Platkus) writes:

: >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
: But I do need compatibility with the 1.44mb floppies.  That's one of the big
: advantages of the floptical; you can have compatibility with storage mediums
: on msdos machines as well as Macs.

Indecent plug: BlueDisk by SHH. Does DD, HD, ED, and soon floppy tapes. The
thing is just what I always wanted :)

: And BTW, a normal (800K) 3.5" floppy will not work in a floptical; only the
: 720K ones.

Well, of course 800k would work ... if it's a MFM 800k :) The GCR 800k can't
work, for obvious reasons.

Soenke

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