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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: IOMEGA Ditto Drive vs ZIP, JAZZ?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 21:11:07 GMT
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- Scott Sutherland (102677.767@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
- : Hello All!
-
- : I have been seeing television commercials over the past few weeks
- : touting a new mass storage drive, the IOMEGA Ditto, which is
- : supposed to have an 800 Mb+ storage capacity and cost not much
- : more than a ZIP drive. Does anyone know about this drive? Does
- : anyone have experience with the Amiga compatibility of this
- : drive? I am seriously considering one of these drives, so I would
- : like to have as much info as possible.
-
- Ditto is a tape drive. It connects via the floppy port or via the
- parallel port on an IBM PC/Clone. Not possible to use one on the
- Amiga as the floppy controller is different, and the parallel ports
- aren't the same.
-
- : Thanks,
-
- : Scott Sutherland
- : A3000 w/V-Lab Motion-Toccatta, so I need SPACE!!!
-
- jerry
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