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Article #165Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC?
From: Ontario Bicyclist
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3tjkgi$d80@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, mhughes@pms104.pms.ford.com (Mark Hughes) wrote: > jcgroves@netspace.net.au (John Groves) writes: > > My hypothesis is that Mac users account for a disproportionately high > > share of the demand. If this is true, why is it so? > > Simple. Almost all Macs in use have SCSI capability; most PCs do not. > Parallel-port devices are not particularly hot sellers (and the parallel > ZIP drive is slow). Actually, I had heard that of the over 3000 back ordered zip drives only 300 were mac!!.. the rest... PC.. go figure! -- Ontario Bicyclist is a *FREE* general bicycling magazine available at local bike stores in Peterborough, Ottawa and the GTA.. the Editors' heads are usually found at http://www.io.org/~mittens
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: f64bf,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf64bf,public X-Google-Thread: 11002a,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid11002a,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public From: mittens@io.org (Ontario Bicyclist) Subject: Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC? Date: 1995/07/08 Message-ID: <mittens-0807950807340001@mittens.net5a.io.org> X-Deja-AN: 105821674 distribution: world references: <jcgroves-0707951549180001@203.12.52.32> <3tjkgi$d80@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> organization: We're Free for All! newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,aus.computers.mac