Super Floppy

[DukeChestnut]

anyone know where i can get these super floppy drives? y is it so hard to find? r they crappy?

 

[amdskip]

You mean a LS-120?

 

[ObiDon]

I'm assuming you mean those IDE drives that take 1.44MB and 120MB floppies? I don't know where you can find it gut it's so hard to find because they may not even be in production anymore. They were a competitor to the Zip drives back in the Zip 100 days :Q

 

[GregMal]

Yeah, most now use CD burners for data backup/exchange......
It's so much cheaper also.....Greg

 

[vss1980]

Yep, they were a competitor for the ZIP drives. In my opinion they were superior, but the standard was let down by poor manufacturer support. The drives and media were cheaper than ZIP disks, but that still never really made much difference.
They had 120MB disks that actually held 120MB (read the DOS/FDISK way) as opposed to ZIP's 100MB disk that held less than that (same with their 250MB disks - read the Hard drive makers way).

There was supposed to be a 240MB drive on the way but that never really surfaced. I think the main reason that it all died a death can be summed up in just a few letters: CDR

The way things are at the moment, CDR drives are getting cheaper all the time and you can get blank CDR's for less than the price of a can of cola.

 

[nortexoid]

panasonic makes an internal one, and that mac peripheral maker...forgot the name...makes an external one

those are the only ones i know of.

they're garbage tho because floppies, zip discs, and the like are worthless compared to CD-R/RW

u can use packet writing software and use CDRW discs like floppies, adn they cost about 1/6 the price of a zip/super disc and hold far more...after format around 550MB per CDRW.

and without formatting, u can get close to 650MB per disc....CDR discs will allow over 700 (on overburn ones)