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    21-Jan-93  05:04:17
Sb: New Product Announcement
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: All

Announcing a new product for all MM/1 owners.

The Dirt Cheap Computer Stuff Company, DccS, (me), is pleased to offer a
Floptical Disk Drive.  These drives use 3.5 inch optical disks to read and
write up to 21 Megabytes of data on one disk, while still being able to read
and write standard 1.44 Meg and 720K floppies.

The drives are mounted as a normal 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and connected
using your SCSI cable.  A special device driver and descriptor (/f0) allows you
to access all disk types (21 Meg, 1.44 Meg, 720k) through the same descriptor. 
The drive automatically detects the different types. All disk types are
formatted using special descriptors that can be loaded when needed or included
in your boot file.

Read/write speeds for the 21 Meg disks are much faster than standard floppy
disks.  Measured transfer rates for reading are 124 Kbytes a second and 74
Kbytes a second for writing.  This compares to 15 Kbytes reading and 1.8 Kbytes
writing for a 1.44 meg floppy on the MM/1.  Seek times for the 21 Meg drives
were measured at 137ms average (at the application).

The price for a complete system including the drive, software drivers and
descriptors and documentation for installing and using the drive is $350.00. 
This drive and the software drivers are offered exclusively by DccS.  For more
information, or to place and order contact DccS either by e-mail to me, or
calling or writing the following:

        Mark Griffith
        DccS
        1368 Old Hwy 50 East
        Union, MO 63084

        (314) 583-1168  (leave a message, I'll call back)

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