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Article #186Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC?
From: Mike Muise
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
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Stephan Anagnostaras (stephan@psych.ucla.edu) wrote:
: The Zip may not be as popular because you need to add a card (usually) to
: get it to work with a PC (unless you use parallel which is just stupid).
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I've seen this sentiment a lot, and I have to wonder what causes it.
Are a lot of people buying the drives and just leaving them on their
desks as kind of a second hard drive? Personally, I can't imagine
what I'd use the zip for if I couldn't carry it around and plug it
into other PC's (the average PC user doesn't have an external SCSI
jack just kicking around). In the average day, I take the the drive
to the lab at school, put as much as 80 megs on it, depending on what
I'm doing, and then usually stop by a friend's place and copy the stuff
before heading home. None of this could happen if I had gone with
SCSI -- is portability a total non-issue for most folks out there?
Just curious,
mike
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