Re: Booting off floptical

[prl3546@aw101.iasl.ca.boeing.com (Philip R. Lindberg)]

taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>    It came in very handy today when a friend of mine had to bring in a
>set of system disks to an Apple dealer in town (his GS was in the shop).
>Apple Canada would not give the dealer a set of the system software, so
>my friend had to provide his own.  He was over here this morning, so I
>popped in the floptical, up came seven icons (six System 6.01 and one HD
>boot partition backup) and I did some quick disk-to-disk copies. 
>Flopticals are also very cool for storing disk images for usergroup
>libraries.  The drive itself is very small (unlike the Syquest) so you
>can bring it around to meetings, SIG's, swap meets, etc.

Brian,

This sounds like an excellent use for the flopical.  How "robust is it?"
(eg. is it going to croak from bouncing around on the car seat?   Or
would it survive a two foot drop to the floor?)

Anybody out there have experience along these lines?

Phil

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