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John Anderson (johna@magicnet.net) wrote:
: itself seems pretty substantial as well.  I'm not going to beat one
: of these things to death just to make a definitive analysis.  They

Why should you? The complete reviews already have. They buy media and put 
it through torture tests. I haven't seen a review yet where the Zip 
didn't win out.

Of course, this isn't really geared to the home user who is never going 
to let a cartridge out of the house, or the 'private' user who takes a 
disk home from work every night. This is for those who have to mail, drop 
off, or throw disks to agencies, clients, service bureaus, and so on. 
People who can't babysit the disks. If you fall into the former category, 
it's not as much of a concern.

(It also isn't as bad if someone takes off with a $14 or $7 [25MB] disk 
than a $20 cartridge).

: do cost $20!  However, if someone wants to send me $20, I will purchase
: a new disk, beat the tar out of it in progressively greater degrees of
: abuse, do surface scans along the way, and post the results for all to
: see.  Make that $40 and I'll do one with the case and one without.

A waste of money if someone has already done that for you, don't you 
think? ;-)

PS: I'm not telling you that you shouldn't have an EZ drive, I'm merely 
pointing out the advantages of a Zip for the benefit of those who are 
choosing. FWIW: Iomega's attitude towards OS/2 users is not appealing to 
me, even though I'm currently in the 'fortunate' crowd with a Mac and 
thus get the software support and freebies by default. I'm not just a 
blind Iomega advocate.