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Re: MORE on flopticals and their ilk

Subject: Re: MORE on flopticals and their ilk
From: fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 18:40:34 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: EMG - Epoch Micro Group, Richmond, California, U.S.A
References: <226ed5INNr4c@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>

>I'm curious: would the big 128-megger SCSI optical drives work on a GS?

According to Andrew at C.V. Technologies, RamFAST have full support for
optical drives.  Dunno about Apple High-Spped/rev. C.  You probably need
drivers...

>Also, what sort of disk does a floptical use? Does it kinda look like any
>other floppy disk? From what I understand, flopticals use a laser or
>something to read/write, which results in more data being stored, right?

Floptical drives tracks with laser ( more accuracy which allows higher
density ), but still read/writes magnetically.

-- 
frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com

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