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- From: hartigan@flowbee.interaccess.com (Mike Hartigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Zip External (Parallel Port)
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 03:06:45 GMT
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- Allan Girvan (allan@girvan.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : On Fri, 26 Jan 96, David Richard Hall wrote:
-
- : > While I was in GAME yesterday, I noticed that they were selling the PC
- : Version
- : > of the Zip Drive (Parallel post version). If I had some Software Like A
- : Filesystem etc...
- : > and other s/w (any idea where from ? pd ???) would the drive work ? or
- : is the fact that it is
- : > pc, means that it is only available for sad, lonly people, who think hat
- : Bill Gates loves them
- : > for buying a pc etc.....
-
- : The parallel port version doesn't (and probably never will) work on the
- : Amiga. :(
-
- : The SCSI version will work (assuming that you have a SCSI controller fitted
- : to your machine!).
-
- : Cheers,
-
-
- : Allan.
-
- More importantly, even the folks who make the ZIP drive acknowledge that
- the SCSI version is 2-5 times faster than the parallel port version. That's
- a SERIOUS performance consideration!
-
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