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Help!

    26-Oct-92 19:37:35
Sb: #74616-Help!
Fm: Jim Steele 73315,375
To: Paul Toal 72701,2360
Well, Flopticals are only about $20 each. That comes out to about $1/meg. The best I've seen on Syquest carts is $1.40/meg. Flopticals are more rugged than Syquest carts. They're just like regular floppies. The Syquest cart is a hard disk- the system uses flying heads just like a HD. And unlike HD's it's not sealed against dust. So it's more prone to crashing due to dust or mechanical problems. The floptical heads are already on the disk, so they can't crash. The floptical disks are smaller also. Try carrying a Syquest cart in your shirt pocket. 🙂 There's also talk that the Floptical's media may be upgraded to 100+ megabytes within a year.