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- Path: potogold.rmii.com!burner!bmaple
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.hs87@burner.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 16:55:12 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
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- On Sat 13-Jan-1996 6:32a, William Near wrote:
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- WN> Isn't an extra 33 Mbs of storage worth the extra $3 in
- WN> cartridge costs? I think it is.
-
- But is the extra 33MB worth it for the pain of the entire SyQuest format?
-
- I don't think so.
-
- WN> I'll agree that the platters used in the SyQuest's
- WN> cartridges may be more fragile than the ZIP's disks. I'm
- WN> neither careless nor abusive with my computer equipment,
- WN> though.
-
- I don't think anyone would buy a product based on the fact that they can chuck
- a disk across the room and not break it--I don't think most people do that for
- entertainment value.
-
- But accidents do happen and it especially makes SyQuest disks scary to ship.
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-