Re: RamFast + Iomega Zip drive?

[bpvh@shell1.msn.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax) wrote:

>Can someone explain what a Zip drive is?  I get the vague
>impression that it's a floptical on the large side.

S.CAVANAUGH1 [Steve] on GEnie wrote:

| The ZIP drive by Iomega Corporation, maker of Bernoulli drives,
| is a small, removeable SCSI drive unit that uses 3.5" cartridges
| (well, more like 3.6S) in 25 MB and 100 MB densities. The drive
| comes in two models, a SCSI model for use with PC's or Mac's (or
| Apple IIGS's, as we have now found) or a Parallel port model for
| use with PC's. The unit is quite small, only 7 by 5.5 by 1.75
| inches, has a termination switch and a SCSI ID selector switch
| (it can only be set to ID 5 or 6), and dual 25 pin SCSI ports.
| There is no power switch on the unit, which draws power from a
| very bulky power block. The ZIP drive can be laid flat or stood
| horizontally (there are rubber feet attached for this) The front
| has an eject button and dual LEDs, a green one to indicate power
| on and an amber one to indicate disk access. The unit sells for
| $199.00 in most of the Macintosh mail-order catalogs like
| MacMall, MacWarehouse or MacConnection, and the media cost about
| $19.95 for the 100 MB cartridges (less if you buy 5 packs) and
| $9.95 for the 25 MB cartridges. However, at the present time, the
| cartridges (except for the 100 Mb cartridge that ships with the
| unit) are seriously back-ordered.

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