Re: ZIP drive

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Paul Schultz (schultp@aa.wl.com) wrote:
: Dan Brown (vmbb!pro-newton!pro-dan!danb) wrote:

: :         I haven't heard of these.  Info, please?  Iomega seems to do some
: : pretty cool stuff, so these might be interesting...

: I just read the MacWarehouse ad a little closer. The unit has a seek time
: of 29ns. and a transfer rate of 1.25MB/sec. (It came from an advetisement
: though -- so beware).

: General info (from memory now):

: The Zip Drive is a new 3.5 inch removable hard drive. It is neither SyQuest
: nor Bernoulli compatible. Its main feature is price. The unit is very 
: compact (1.5 x 5.35 x 7.25 inches). The MacWarehouse ad shows someone
: placing the unit in a briefcase. I guess an attempt to target the laptop/
: notebook market.

: As I mentioned before, it is $199.95 for the unit + one 100MB cartridge.
: Oh, it is a SCSI device.

There's plenty o' talk about it over in comp.sys.mac.hardware. If you're not 
one of the Mac hater crowd just drop in and check it out.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
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