[6.3.5] Floptical {Brief}

From: Disk

I believe flopticals use an optical tracking mechanism to improve
ordinary magnetic head positioning and therefore density.

The Compaq/3M/Matsushita floptical floppies actually hold 120MB
formatted (according to the August 95 Byte), and can read and write
standard 1.44MB floppies and read 720KB floppies. (John Brock,
jbrock@panix.com, 8/95)

Supposed to be available Dec. '95?

Top Document: comp.arch.storage FAQ 1/2
Previous Document: [6.3.4] Bernouli {None}
Next Document: [6.3.6] PC Removables {Brief}

Part1 - Part2 - Single Page

[ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ]

Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer:
rdv@alumni.caltech.edu

Last Update October 22 2009 @ 05:22 AM