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- From: ccs@u.cc.utah.edu (Charles Storer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: 3.5 inch Syquests- anyone seen them?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.154127.19826@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:41:27 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.215528.8021@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
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- In article <1992Jul26.215528.8021@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@ept.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
- >Sometime ago I read that Syquest was working on 3.5 inch versions of their
- >removable HDs. Has anyone seen anything about these? My survey of the
- >latest MacWeek turned up nothing promising.
- >
- >If these things don't appear soon and I'm forced to buy the standard 5.25
- >inch 88MB Syquests, is this a good idea? Are these great value or so
- >fragile that they're not worth the time? I want a medium for backup, and an
- >auxiliary hard drive to which I can link uncommonly used stuff via aliases,
- >so I don't care about details like compatiblity with service bureas and
- >other macs.
- >
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- Why not check into Iomega's Bernoulli 90? They are also 5.25 inches, but
- are not particularly fragile.
-