DTC TakeTen media?

Eric Smith spacewar at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 16:52:32 CDT 2018


On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> The thing that really brought Drivetec down was that you had to use
> their factory-preformatted embedded-servo floppy media.  It was
> expensive (about $15 each in 1986).
>

Same with Iomega ZIP disks (introduced 1994, initially $20 medium), but
those were wildly successful.

I don't think requiring factory-formatted media was really the problem. It
seems more likely that the Drivetec disk only having the capacity of seven
floppy disks was the problem.


More information about the cctech mailing list