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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 05:43:53 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Ross Deeley (rossdee@inhb.co.nz) wrote:
- : On 10 Jan 1996, Maxwell Daymon wrote:
- : > I think of Zip as a replacement for the floppy. The Jaz (one 'z') drive
- : > would be a nice 'extra' but I certainly don't consider it to be a viable
- : > alternative to a standard replacement of the floppy drive.
-
- : What is this Jaz drive anyway? What are its basic specs, and more
- : important, costs, compared to ZIP?
-
- $500 (internal), $600 (external). 540MB ($70) and 1GB ($100) cartridges.
- 6.73MB sustained transfer rates (faster than many hard drives).
-
- It's an enhanced winchester disk, so it's not as reliable as Zip or
- Bernoulli cartridges, but it is more reliable than a typical SyQuest.
-
- : standard) from the 1200+ it would be quite a while before ZIP/CDROM
- : owners outnumbered those with floppies as their only removeable media.
-
- True, but I've never said to take the floppy connector out. Let people
- add a cheap floppy drive if they need to trade with friends. I tend to
- see A1200 owners playing with A1200 owners and kicking their friends with
- old A500's in the garbage anyway. ;-)
-
- I'd rather get the people with older machines to invest in a Zip than
- hold down the newer machines.
-