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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 04:06:01 GMT
- Organization: epix.net
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- On 11 Feb 1996 07:37:39 GMT, Thomas Weeks articulated:
- <> John S. Burger (jsburger@xmission.com) wrote:
- <>
- <> : 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...
- <> [...]
- <> : 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.
- <>
- <> How about R/W at over 2MB/sec! Zips are only HALF as fast!
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- How about storing an extra 33 Mb of data per cartridge and
- setting the SCSI ID to any value?
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