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I ended up buying a SCSI card in fall 1995 so I could use this. The drive was about $500 but each 650MB cartridge was only $30. I could format it with a ext2
by lizknope 4y ago
I ended up buying a SCSI card in fall 1995 so I could use this. The drive was about $500 but each 650MB cartridge was only $30. I could format it with a ext2 and use it as a regular filesystem. No need to make an ISO image to burn. CD burners weren't cheap yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_Dual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_Dual
This technology was later turned into DVD-RAM which was never as popular as DVD+/-R(W)