I bet they sold a lot to government agencies, then abandoned support within a few months or years when it was obvious they were doomed to failure. I saw a lot of these high capcity optical drives being peddled to mid-sized businesses. The appeal was the huge capcity, I think just about 500Mg or so (!). One ad for these optical drives had an advertisement with a tag line stating, "Put a fork in it, hard drives are done!" Well, not so fast my friend, soon after higher capacity HDDs came out (up to a whopping 1Gb for a mere $800! I know, I bought one!). The "fork" ended up going into the writeable optical drives for all but specialty purposes (WORM for document archiving and short term storage).
Gotta love progress... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jean Laeremans > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Gil Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Once upon a time - maybe they still exist - there was something > called video disks which boiled down to SCSI drives with the safety > disabled (they ran slower when they got hot) so they had a limited > lifespan .... (mostly IBM disks if i remember clearly) > > A+ > jml > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
