IBM was at its most tantalising at a breakfast meeting at Comdex last week and according to Microbytes Daily, Personal Systems chief James Cannavino took out of his pocket and waved around for a moment a 3.5 magneto-optical floppy disk that he claims will store up to 85 disks’ worth of information, or up to 12,000 graphics displays, or a five minute multimedia presentation: the thing is some way from being a product, but trying to turn the data into something we can all understand, magneto-optical implies that it is erasable, and since it is a floppy disk, we can assume it is being compared with 3.5 magnetic floppies, IBM’s current standard is still 1.44Mb, so presumably the capacity will be some 120Mb or so.
