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On 8/19/2004 at 10:23 AM Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
Hmm, my first ever floptical drive just landed on
the doorstep amongst a
pile of hardware. Never seen one before now, and it seems there's very
little info on the web about the technology.
It didn't exactly take over the market.
Which is a shame. The high price tag probably killed them. I remember the drives going
for around $200. A couple years later, ZIP drives came out at around the same price for 5
time the capacity.
Joe