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johna@magicnet.net (John Anderson) wrote:

>Where do you come up with this stuff.  How would you know anything about
>pricing or how the EZ drive was built.  Its seems fairly well made to me and
>it works just fine.  The EZ cartridge sells for $20 at Egghead and I doubt
>the price will go up in the future.

Where does one find out these things? Syquest's own executives!  Their
quarterly report featured a statement whereit was said that they were
losing around 100$ per drive, and that the disk supply might run low
due to the disks being made from rejected 270 carts.  If they run out
of rejected material, the price will go up, unless Syquest is willing
to take even more losses.


>I like to see honest objective evaluations on the new groups.  Not people
>bad mouthing products just because they're pissed at the manufacturer.  Your
>evaluation of the EZ doesn't seem to reflect the product accurately.  I really
>would like to see some honest speed comparisons between these products because
>I believe the EZ drive's performance is going to be the decisive factor for
>some people.

Me too.  I don't bad mouth the EZ, I just give all the reasons to buy
a Zip instead.  It's not hard to sell someone on the Zip, from what
I've seen.  The salesmen at Software etc. tried to sell me an EZ, but
I convinced them that the Zip was the better product. Trained
salesmen!  Everywhere I went over Christmas in Northern VA, I saw
plenty of EZs, and NO Parallel Zips.  Except the ONE reveal Zip at
Sears.  Speed tests are largely irrelevant, the home user market wants
simplicity, which means Parallel Port.  No SCSI, No IDE.  That's the
decisive factor.

-Primal Scream / Terraformer