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merrijm@RT66.com (John M. Merrill) wrote:

>primal@vt.edu (Primal Scream) wrote:
>
>>global1.net (asterisk) wrote:
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>>>A few differences: Zip uses floppy type cartridges -in a rigid case- and
>>>the EZ uses hard drive type disks in its cartridges. The EZ is a little
>>>faster when getting data off its cartridges. Price nearly the same these
>>>days and the cartridges are the same price. The EZ cartridge holds a bit
>>>more data (after you reformat it) than does the Zip drive cartridge.  
>
>>And on the other side, the Zip is available in a Parallel port model
>>with Internals soon behind, one of which has a 1.44mb FDD riding
>>piggyback.  Zip also has a huge owner base and several vendors lined
>>up to produce disks, which means disk price will likely drop.
>
>
>And from what I've read and heard, the zip is more likely to become a
>standard, as far as larger floppies go.  In my opinion, the
>portability of the drive itself is not nearly as attractive as the
>thought of being able to take your 100-meg floppy to you colleague's
>house or office and know that he has a drive that will handle it.  
>
>
>
>John
>

Currious, but why don't you think the SyQuest drive will dominate.  It
is  the same price and as far as SCSI interfaces go, it is faster.  My
drive seems to work pretty good.


Wes Szumera
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