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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 17 Jan 96 17:07:36 +0500
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- On or about 17-Jan-96 04:46:56 Peter da Silva typed the following words about
- "Re: ZIP vs SyQuest". My reply is thus...
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- PdS> 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
- >>careful with a Zip disk than a floppy disk but the point was valid; As
- >>as they are, it isn't any harder to knock a Zip/EZ disk off the desk th
- >>floppy.
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- PdS> I knock floppies on the floor all the time. If they appear undamaged I'l
- PdS> reuse them. If they've got a sprung cover or something, I'll copy stuff
- PdS> off them and chunk them. They're cheap. I can afford to treat them as
- PdS> disposable.
-
- PdS> I also use tape cartridges. They're not cheap. I don't recall ever knock
- PdS> one off a table, and they're smaller than Syquest cartridges. I don't le
- PdS> them on the tabletop. I keep munchkins away from the closet I keep my
- PdS> computer junk in. They're expensive, I can't afford to treat them as tra
-
- >>But the fact that you _can_ knock a Zip disk off the desk and not do mu
- >>it says something.
-
- PdS> I can also throw an HP calculator across the room and not damage it, but
- PdS> I bought a programmable calculator I bought a TI. I admire the HPs, but
- PdS> like to use them. It's my choice.
-
- PdS> Like I said, if you're looking for big floppies, the Zip's great. If you
- PdS> looking for something you can do anything you can with a hard disk, you
- PdS> a Syquest. That's just the way it is.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Again Huh??? Please tell me what you can do with a Syquest that you can't do
- with a ZIP? They both look like a HD to the OS.
-
- PdS> I'm sure the Zip's going to sell W
- PdS> more than the Syquest. That doesn't mean everyone buying a Syquest is a
-
- I never said they were.
-
- PdS> After all, look how many more people run Windows than Intuition.
-
- What does that have to do with this discussion?
-
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- Failsafe pickup: I'd give you a piece of my mind, but I have more of something
- else.
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