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- From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 17:46:56 -0600
- Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
- Message-ID: <4dhddg$6cv@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
- References: <bmaple.htqe@burner.com>
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-
- In article <bmaple.htqe@burner.com>, Bob Maple <bmaple@burner.com> wrote:
- >PS> If you treat 100MB cartridges like floppies you deserve everything
- >PS> you get.
-
- >I hardly think the issue here is how media is "treated". Obviously I'm more
- >careful with a Zip disk than a floppy disk but the point was valid; As small
- >as they are, it isn't any harder to knock a Zip/EZ disk off the desk than a
- >floppy.
-
- I knock floppies on the floor all the time. If they appear undamaged I'll
- reuse them. If they've got a sprung cover or something, I'll copy stuff
- off them and chunk them. They're cheap. I can afford to treat them as
- disposable.
-
- I also use tape cartridges. They're not cheap. I don't recall ever knocking
- one off a table, and they're smaller than Syquest cartridges. I don't leave
- them on the tabletop. I keep munchkins away from the closet I keep my
- computer junk in. They're expensive, I can't afford to treat them as trash.
-
- >But the fact that you _can_ knock a Zip disk off the desk and not do much to
- >it says something.
-
- I can also throw an HP calculator across the room and not damage it, but when
- I bought a programmable calculator I bought a TI. I admire the HPs, but I don't
- like to use them. It's my choice.
-
- Like I said, if you're looking for big floppies, the Zip's great. If you're
- looking for something you can do anything you can with a hard disk, you need
- a Syquest. That's just the way it is. I'm sure the Zip's going to sell WAY
- more than the Syquest. That doesn't mean everyone buying a Syquest is a twit.
-
- After all, look how many more people run Windows than Intuition.
- --
- If the best part of waking up is Folgers in the cup, you might as well
- stay in bed.
-
- <URL: http://bonkers.neosoft.com/~peter/ >
-