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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 13:43:34 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

The image descriptions explain what the stuff is.
There's a network box to control video tape recorders, a Bunch of software, a bunch of documentation (including a Huge book on MorphPlus) and a Syquest drive and cartridges.
I'm looking forward to getting this stuff archived.

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- Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 13:43:33 UTC Juha Autero
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  @ajroach42 There were floptical drives and then there was SuperDisk LS-120. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk
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    The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's storage products group Imation in 1997, with manufacturing chiefly by Matsushita. The SuperDisk had little success in North America; with Compaq, Gateway and Dell being three of only a few OEMs who supported it. It was more successful in Asia and Australia, where the second-generation SuperDisk LS-240 drive and disk was released. SuperDisk worldwide ceased manufacturing in 2003. History The design of the SuperDisk system came from an early 1990s project at Iomega. It is one of the last examples of floptical technology, where lasers are used to guide a magnetic head which is much smaller than those used in traditional floppy disk drives. Iomega orphaned the project around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. The idea eventually ended up at 3M, where the concept was refined and the design was licensed to established floppy drive makers Matsushita and Mitsubishi. Other companies involved in the development of SuperDisk...
- Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 13:43:33 UTC Juha Autero
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  @ajroach42 Googling tells SupraDrive for Amiga was a HDD (and memory extension).
  
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- Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 13:43:34 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)
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  There's also a Supra drive, I dunno what a Supra drive is, but it looks like a regular floppy drive.
  
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