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- On 12 Jan 1996, Maxwell Daymon wrote:
-
- > : 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).
-
- I think I'll keep my ZIP drive then, those prices are a little bit
- expensive.
-
- > 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.
-
- I have dropped ZIP's onto the floor, no problems.
-
- >
- > : 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.
-
- If the software installs onto hard drive, they could just borrow someone
- elses ZIP (and squirrel if they didn't have one)
-
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