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Article #169Re: ZiP -vs- EZ135
From: Maxwell Daymon
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:37
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:37
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Joe Kearney (tuf@cyberspy.com) wrote: : An example: We attempted to use the ZIP drive to store about 100 megs : of .WAD files (we like net Doom at work) and run them right off the : ZIP. This doesnt work very well with the parallel model. The game : pauses for a sec while the data is transfered from the ZIP as you If you expect anything close to decent performance from a parallel port drive of ANY kind.... I wish Iomega didn't even offer the parallel port version - people then tend to compare the parallel port version of the Zip to the SCSI EZ and think they've actually made a valid comparison! Then the Zip gets the bad reputation. : Now if Syquest comes up with a parallel version of the EZ, that might : be something to argue about. Of course the ZIP would be much lighter : and easy to handle...arg, now here I go! I say go far beyond EZ if you're interested in personal non-portable storage.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.rmii.com!rainbow!mdaymon From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: ZiP -vs- EZ135 Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi Date: 29 Dec 1995 22:37:12 GMT Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc. Message-ID: <4c1qio$ae8@natasha.rmii.com> References: <4bfgk7$of0@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <global1.net-2612951954150001@ppp10.global1.net> <4bqhlq$m9p@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4c08bk$lpc@news.cyberspy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rainbow.rmii.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]