Re: Anyone know about IOMEGA Zip Drive or similar products?

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From: Ronald Maurer
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 00:00

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On Sat, 06 Apr 1996 21:13:43 GMT, king@netc.com (Andreas Zollmann)
wrote:
>Has anyone of you had any positive or negative experiences with the
>IOMEGA Zip Drive? It is a portable Drive that uses floppy-disk sized
>media with 100MB capacity. The great advantage of this product is that
>you can have large storage to cheap costs (one 100MB cartridge is
>$ 15,00). I would like to know if that product is worth buying it and
>if it is really almost as fast as a harddrive.

I used the paralell version at first but changed later to the SCSI
one. The SCSI is quite fast and I'm very satisfied with it, although a
HD is still faster. It's very convenient for backing up or storing
large files or downloads.

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Subject: Re: Anyone know about IOMEGA Zip Drive or similar products?
Date: 1996/04/07
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