1993 June 21, advertisement, InfoWorld, page 12, Floptical technology is a practical and affordable way to increase your storage capacity— without giving up the convenience of diskettes.
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Floptical
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Optical technology appears in many forms of devices, starting from CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) disks, to floptical disk (optical floppy disks) to very high capacity (up to 20 GB) optical disks.
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Alternatives to tape and CD-R include floptical disks, Bernoulli boxes, and other removable drives.
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Like floppy drives on steroids, flopticals use laser optics to store up to 21MB of data on one 3½-inch disk. The advantages of flopticals are a low buy-in cost ($400 and under) and the convenience of using the drive for your current library of 1.44MB and 720K disks (as well as IBM′s 2.88MB disks).
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