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Jim Armstrong <jma2@erinet.com> wrote:

>mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) wrote:

>>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 there's a typical gamer's reaction....  To hell with people that do 
>real work on their pc's!  And what "people .. tend to compare"  or is it 
>that I know more than a gamer about a pc's hardware, even though it's 
>right there in the book? 
>I wouldn't have bought the ZIP if it hadn't been parallel.... If some of 
>you guys have been doing _real work_ and struggling with dorky and 
>unreliable Colorado Systems backup and configuration tapes you'd 
>understand what a godsend the parallel port ZIP is.

I tend to agree with you.  We do all of our backups with our
TeleBack(tm) RBS software.  We get approx. 8.3 mpm are very pleased!

In face, we sold our external Conner tape drive an use the zip drive
exclusively.



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