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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: IOMEGA Ditto Drive vs ZIP, JAZZ?
- Date: 22 Mar 96 12:16:56 +0500
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- On or about 19-Mar-96 22:55:26 Jerry R typed the following words about "Re:
- IOMEGA Ditto Drive vs ZIP, JAZZ?". My reply is thus...
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- Hi Jerry,
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- >> >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
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- >> I believe that the Ditto is IOmega's tape streamer and it plugs into the
- >> floppy controller (or parallel port) the same as Colorado's do and as such
- >> can't be used on an Amiga.
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- JR> Could a parallel driver be written for the Amiga to use the IOmega's tape
- JR> streamer for backup purposes?
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- I would think not. The PC and Amiga parallel ports are physically different. I
- am sure if it could be done someone would have done it a *LONG* time ago.
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