15 Nov
1998
15 Nov
'98
4:15 a.m.
My understanding of MO drives was the the servo tracks were optical (and
thus very dense and accurate) but the data tracks were still magnetic with
a conventional read/write/erase head.
--Chuck
At 02:33 PM 11/15/98 +0000, Mark wrote:
I'm surprised more people don't use MO
(magneto-optical) drives. 640MB on a
3.5" MO disk, no head contact with disk surface (data read using laser), not
susceptible to magnetic fields, media life at least 30 years,