hardw: OnStream 30GB 'floppy'-drive !!!

[Nick Shaffner]

Hehe, too bad these are tape drives and can only xfer 7 gig an hour - that'd
be a long install time :)

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Nick Shaffner
co-programmer: Duke Nukem Forever
3D Realms

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Dufresne <dufrp@oricom.ca>
To: os-ideas@tunes.org <os-ideas@tunes.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:46 PM
Subject: hardw: OnStream 30GB 'floppy'-drive !!!


>Looking in the catalog of a local store that sell computers (among other
>office stuff) at big price, I was amazed by a new product:
>OnStream 30Gb floppy drive, 450$cnd. The 30Gb 'floppies' cost 65$cnd.
>But 1 come with the drive. I have no reference to know if the
>transfer rate of 1Mb (I suppose by second) is fast. Like fast enough
>to play movies. I guess you could put put about 6 or 7 movies on one
>of these 'floppies'. This seems to connect on IDE.
>
>So I suppose soon enough, some company will make software that fill
>one of these floppies. :-)
>
>Paul
>
>