modern removable media drives

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Sun Nov 15 12:15:22 1998

My understanding of MO drives was the the servo tracks were optical (and
thus very dense and accurate) but the data tracks were still magnetic with
a conventional read/write/erase head.
--Chuck

At 02:33 PM 11/15/98 +0000, Mark wrote:
>I'm surprised more people don't use MO (magneto-optical) drives. 640MB on a
>3.5" MO disk, no head contact with disk surface (data read using laser), not
>susceptible to magnetic fields, media life at least 30 years,
Received on Sun Nov 15 1998 - 12:15:22 GMT