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Let's see the endorsements Wirt lists are NeXT, Mac and SGI. I wouldn't
call those vigorous endorsements.
On the other hand the LS-120 is a 3M (Imation) product. Many PC companies
offer it as an option, especially on laptops. Compaq, IBM and several
others also offer it on desktops. When it is connected via ATAPI, it is
quite speedy. Connect it to the parallel port, and it's a different story.
Will it last? Who knows. Is it useful? To me it is. I have it for my
laptop and I have stored the floppy drive somewhere.
Sony has released the 200 MB floppy drive, which can also read/write 1.44MB
floppies. So now, it's going to be a battle between Zip drives, LS-120
drives and the Sony HDHD.
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com www.hicomp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 March, 1999 4:22 PM
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Subject: Re: Off Topic: 2MB Floppy
Glenn writes:
> Denys writes:
>
> > How about a blast from the past: I found the following document,
dated
> > December 1990 on the web:
> >
> > "The NeXTcube: Similar to the original NeXT, with three free NuBus
> > expansion slots. It can be purchased with a variety of mass storage
> > options, including the 2.88MB floppy disk,
> [snip]
>
> Interesting. I thought the original NeXT machine *was* a cube.
> IIRC, there was a fair amount of controversy over its lack of
> a floppy drive. (Deja vu all over again, eh? ;)
I have no idea what came as "standard" on a NeXT machine, but the most
common
floppy for the system was the same 21MB/1.44MB floptical ("the wave of the
future") drive that we bought into for use with our Macs. It was also
commonly
used on SGI's Indy series machines, too. With endorsements like that, how
could it fail, I asked myself then? -- which, btw, is the same question
Denys
is currently asking himself about the 120MB superdisk flopticals :-).
Wirt Atmar
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