Talk:Floptical

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While fine in content, I can't see this growing into anything more than a stub. All the information that could be added to it probably already exists in Magneto-optical drive. I can't see this becoming anything more than a dictionary definition. —Frecklefoot 19:46, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

Redirect to Magneto-optical drive -- Cyrius | Talk 20:55, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
- I agree - redirect to Magneto-optical drive -- Marknew 09:00, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The redirection to Magneto-optical drive is mistaken. I added an explanation on that page about what Flopticals were, but it should actually be here.

This can become more than a stub; some history of floptical drives can be in order. I remember them in 1992; they are one of the big reasons 2.88 floppies never caught on. Samboy

Jim or Al Shugart. This is the floppy-disk guy, right? Maury 14:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but not who you think. :) It should actually be Jim Adkisson (who worked for Shugart). I have updated the article accordingly. Frodet 23:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Frodet! Maury 17:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whereas, the small section in the Magneto-optical drive page says it was founded by Jim Burke. Can they both be right? Are they right in different ways? I dunno, just reading it and saw the discrepancy, and all the relevant pages seem empty. Anyone care to clarify? --195.92.168.163 14:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As an owner of an LS-120 drive from 2001 till 2007, and was running Windows XP all the way up until 2009. Windows XP did have official LS-120 driver support, and write to and read the 120MB disks (despite what this page says), at least until 2007 when it was removed, possibly in Service Pack 3. After that, you could only read/write to 720K and 1.44MB floppies. Sucks, considering I still have several LS-120 disks with stuff on them. Kusanagi-sama (talk) 23:40, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]