WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Feb 17 11:07:27 2000

A friend of mine and I had about a dozen of those SMO-501's back in about
'89 or '90. We cleaned and upgraded them. Their performance on a PC of
that era was comparable to the previous generation of PC-based SCSI hard
disks. It was not impressive, but it wasn't terribly slow. We had so much
trouble keeping them at $1k each that I never used one myself at all. They
were just too valuable to keep. From what I remember, their performance was
more or less comparable to my Iomega 8" Bernoulli Boxes, though they were
MUCH larger in capacity.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges


>Jerome,
>
> What are you going to use the MO drive on? Just curious. I have a
>SMO-501 also. It's SLOW!! The transfer rate and access time are WORSE than
>a floppy drive.
>
> Joe
>
>At 03:10 PM 2/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>I am looking for a source for the 600 Mbyte magneto optical
>>5 1/4" cartridges with 512 byte per sector. Tim Shoppa
>>has mentioned in the past that he might know where I can
>>find some. Does anyone else? These will be used in a
>>SONY SMO S-501 5 1/4" magneto optical disk drive.
>>
>>I have checked eBay, but they are usually sold as is?
>>
>>Sincerely yours,
>>
>>Jerome Fine
>>
>>
>
Received on Thu Feb 17 2000 - 11:07:27 GMT