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Re: 32MB is size???
- Subject: Re: 32MB is size???
- From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
- Date: 21 Apr 2006 21:36:10 -0700
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Paul Schlyter wrote:
> Depends on what kind of floppy disk you use ... ZIP disks can store
> 100 or 250 MBytes, and a JAZ disk can store 1 GByte. Each of these
> will be able to store multiple ProDos volumes 32 MB each.
Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> writes:
> I have to admit I didn't think of those. Personaly I wouldn't call ZIP
> disks etc. "floppy disks". I know that that's probably not correct,
> but I'd always refer to them as "ZIP" disks etc, not as "floppies".
> But maybe that's just me.
ZIP disks are floppy. JAZ are not.
Also ZIP disks are reasonably reliable (other than the very early drives
with the click-of-death problem), and JAZ are not. Sigh.