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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Zip External (Parallel Port)
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 01:13:13 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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- Mike Hartigan (hartigan@flowbee.interaccess.com) wrote:
- : Allan Girvan (allan@girvan.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : : The parallel port version doesn't (and probably never will) work on the
- : : Amiga. :(
-
- : 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!
-
- Well, the parallel port version is usually one-third the speed, so you
- get a 300% increase in speed if you go to SCSI.
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