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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Parellal Zip Drive with Amiga 1200
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 18:02:11
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- Mark Fussell (mjfussell@demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : I have just purchase an iomega zip drive for my PC and I was wondering
- : how I can also use it with my Amiga. The drive is a PARELLAL version,
- : so what do I need to do to install it also on the Amiga 1200?
-
- No go, I'm afraid. The parallel Zip drive won't work on an Amiga, due to
- differences between the Amiga's parallel port and that on PCs. Specifically,
- the Amiga parallel port lacks certain data lines which are used by the Zip.
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- The SCSI version will work fine, but that's no use to you, of course :(
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- -- Mat.
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