Re: ZiP -vs- EZ135

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From: Simon Ho
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 02:07

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In article <4c1ql7$ae8@natasha.rmii.com>, Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) writes:
>Bob (brink@jax-inter.net) wrote:
>:      Parallel port will be noticeably slower in moving data than SCSI. But
>: parallel port is portable, SCSI is essentially not.  You have to decide what is
>: important to what you want to do.
>
>A proper SCSI setup is *almost* as easy to transport with - but it's far 
>faster than a parallel solution.

You'd need all the host machines to have SCSI, which in the case of
a PC is not always guaranteed.  A SCSI adaptor per machine can get
expensive.  This was one thing that put me off getting the SCSI
version. 

If you have to move data around, eg big doom .wads, why not just
copy it onto you HD at the start and play it off that?. 

rgds

Simon

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From: simon@epsilon.win-uk.net (Simon Ho)
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 02:07:12 GMT
Subject: Re: ZiP -vs- EZ135

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