WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Feb 2000

A friend of mine and I had about a dozen of those SMO-501's back in about
'89 or '90.  We cleaned and upgraded them.  Their performance on a PC of
that era was comparable to the previous generation of PC-based SCSI hard
disks.  It was not impressive, but it wasn't terribly slow.  We had so much
trouble keeping them at $1k each that I never used one myself at all.  They
were just too valuable to keep.  From what I remember, their performance was
more or less comparable to my Iomega 8" Bernoulli Boxes, though they were
MUCH larger in capacity.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe &lt;rigdonj(a)intellistar.net&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges

...
 Jerome,

   What are you going to use the MO drive on?  Just curious.  I have a
SMO-501 also. It's SLOW!!  The transfer rate and access time are WORSE than
a floppy drive.

   Joe

At 03:10 PM 2/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
 I am looking for a source for the 600 Mbyte
magneto optical
5 1/4" cartridges with 512 byte per sector.  Tim Shoppa
has mentioned in the past that he might know where I can
find some.  Does anyone else?  These will be used in a
SONY  SMO  S-501 5 1/4" magneto optical disk drive.

I have checked eBay, but they are usually sold as is?

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine