A3000 with floptical - anyone ever see one?

[Motormouth]

I did not own one, but I saw one in action.  The disks were 21 meg, and like Terse said could read MS-DOS HD disks.  However they were as slow as molasses in January (well at least in the northern hemisphere.)  basically not much faster than a floppy.

[Motormouth]

Bernoulli and the derivative Zip drives use non-contact heads while floptical and LS heads do have contact with the media surface.

In contrast to harddrives - where the heads fly over or under a rigid surface - Bernoullis use flexible media that in turn fly under a rigid (yet radially moving) head.

Yes, and the Bernoulli drives used the "Bernoulli effect" (hence the name)  to pull the media to the desired distance from the head.