#Help!
Yeah, I've found the old Dremel to be quite handy in 'adjusting' things.
Amazingly enough, mine was a gift *from* my parents. 🙂
I only had the Floptical in the store for a couple days. The guy who
bought it decided to actually take it home. Anyway, I was favorably
impressed by the drive. It seemed fairly fast, like a slow HD instead of a
floppy. I did notice that it slowed down by a noticable amount during the
DOS format. The step time between cyl 2&3 was maybe 3 or 4 times faster
than between 750 & 751. It didn't seem to make significant impact when
copying files. I've always thought that the Floptical would be great for
Toasting… for the kind of renders I like to play with, one disk would
hold a day's worth of frames. I'd just have to change the disk once a day.
And it doubles as a backup media for HDs… On the other hand, I've
installed some Syquests too. They're a good drive as well. If the service
bureau wouldn't permit you to bring in your Floptical drive & hook it to
their system, the Syquest is probably the best choice.
I'm in Flint,MI, home of "Pets or Meat". We can get rabbits 24 hours a
day, but that's it. 🙂 The closest thing we have to a 'electronics
supermarket' is an Active Electronics outlet in the Detroit suburbs, about
70 miles away. The place I really miss was the junk store with all that
old military & old mainframe surplus.
Jim