CompuServe Thread

MO Drives

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#128332From: Laurie CarrollJan 16, 1994 8:21 PM
Kelly, (Tom) Before you buy that Fujitsu 128mb MO drive you should go and ask in the PACAVEN forum's Fujitsu Peripherals section about whats on their horizon. 🙂 Laurie Carroll AKL NZ Longdistance Autopilot
#128580From: Kelly JordanJan 18, 1994 6:03 PM
Go join another forum – ouch! Laurie, why not just cross post what you are hearing from over there?? There are others here who would be interested to hear may be available. Are they going to release a 256MB MO drive? I noticed one advertised by another manufacturer in the Jan issue of AmigaWorld, but no printed price. Haven't noticed any 256MB MO in the Dec issue of Computer Shopper. 73, Kelly
#128643From: Wolf FaustJan 19, 1994 10:30 AM
Yes, but who will gone use those 256MO drives… the 128MB and 650MB Iso drives are well known and you'll be surprised how many people allready have one of those… 256MByte is surely not something that new in a technical sense to start support a 3th standard… I personaly now a lot of users in my area having 650MByte and 128MB MO drives and it's a real joy copying stuff (wanna have fish 1-940… 30 Minutes and the're your's… SIGGraph Proceedings, ftp stuff… I allready got 4G of nice stuff). With 256MB MO drives this is surely not that easy to get… — Wolf Faust, Am Dorfgarten 10, 60435 Frankfurt, Germany —
#128875From: Kelly JordanJan 21, 1994 6:09 AM
I understand real good what you mean about the 256MB MO not being an Iso standard, Wolf. Right now, my best bet is the 128MB MO. Sure, a 650MB unit would be nice, but getting too expensive for me. 73, Kelly
#128744From: Laurie CarrollJan 20, 1994 4:20 AM
"cross posting" ok, I will relay any info I can get. Their "Tech" bloke advised that he cant release any info yet on the new MO drives other than to say that they will be downward compatible with the 128Mb MO disks. BTW they are running a contest with (I think) a 1Gb drive as first prize, for solutions to getting their MO drive to work on various plat forms.