Re: Re: Zip vs Syquest. Thanks

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From: Tim Dawson
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 00:00

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Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this thread. The info was
most useful. 

Interestingly a "straw" poll at work (a Uni Medical College) found a slight
bias in preference towards Zips over SyQuests in the computer related depts
(mostly PC based).

The question of SCSI vs parallel is still vexed. The ease of parallel
connection is very appealing (as I could also use it on my A4) but as
pointed out in a post here it means killing the zip drivers before using
CC's Turbo drivers for printing so I am tending towards the SCSI option; if
I can get a good price on an adapter (plus its faster).

The "PC box shifters" are retailing Zips for c UKP128 inc VAT which means
that Clare's parallel package (UKP193 inc) is charging c UKP65 for the
drivers and Argo (UKP175 inc) c UKP45... a healthy return for the
development costs methinks :-) and a fair proportion of the cost of a SCSI
adaptor.

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