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Article #347Re: Parallel ZIP Drive Really SCSI ???
From: Jay Berrin
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 18:48
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 18:48
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James McNalley wrote: > > I've suspected this for some time, when I was playing with a > friends pc, and booted it to DOS, the driver messages looked very > much to me like they were setting up SCSI stuff... If you can just ----snip---- James; The internal ZIP Drive has a SCSI interface. From a marketing point of view, it makes sense that Iomega would use the same physical drive and only add a parallel port (off the shelf) for the SCSI interface and a case to the external ZIP Drive total package. Parallel port SCSI adapters have existed for quite a while. Companies can't afford to "re-invent the wheel" everytime. It's cheaper and faster to buy and integrate it, if you can. Regards, Jay Berrin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!grumman.com!news From: Jay Berrin <aiap@gateway.grumman.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP Drive Really SCSI ??? Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:48:04 -0800 Organization: Northrop Grumman Corp. Message-ID: <3145C6E4.7496@gateway.grumman.com> References: <DnwM5D.Aq6@mccc.edu> <4hnl81$spr@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.228.55.137 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) To: James McNalley <jmcnalle@attila.stevens-tech.edu>