30 Oct
2008
30 Oct
'08
9:37 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Semi-OT - Sources of magneto-optical disks?
On 30 Oct 2008 at 9:51, William Donzelli wrote:
It is hard to find cheap drives these days. I have a 1.3GB (650MB per side)
5.25" drive with a large amount of media but could use another drive (incase
my current drive bites the dust). Ebay tends to have the drives but the
prices are insane.
I like storing old Mac programs on the MO disks because of the solid case
that keeps them for getting scratched like a cdr or dvdr would. And they are
supposed to last a long time.
TZ
Be careful when buying MO disks. They tend to be
*really* picky about
what drives they want to work with. Most brands do not work reliably
in other brands' drives, even if all the specs and formats say they
should.
The same goes for drives, particularly in the gigabyte capacities.
They tend to be fairly fragile (the large Pinnacle drives had a
tendency to fail after a few months in use). All in all, that was
one technology that I was glad to see die.
Cheers,
Chuck