Re: ZIP drive

[schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz)]

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.

Paul Schultz
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