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Article #187Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC?
From: Chris Harris
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <mittens-0807950807340001@mittens.net5a.io.org>, mittens@io.org (Ontario Bicyclist) writes: > In article <3tjkgi$d80@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, mhughes@pms104.pms.ford.com > (Mark Hughes) wrote: > > > jcgroves@netspace.net.au (John Groves) writes: > > > My hypothesis is that Mac users account for a disproportionately high > > > share of the demand. If this is true, why is it so? > > > > Simple. Almost all Macs in use have SCSI capability; most PCs do not. > > Parallel-port devices are not particularly hot sellers (and the parallel > > ZIP drive is slow). > > Actually, I had heard that of the over 3000 back ordered zip drives only > 300 were mac!!.. the rest... PC.. go figure! Well what's the proportion of PCs to Macs? Chris
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f64bf,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf64bf,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Thread: 11002a,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gid11002a,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,818ed7ee0068dde6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public From: charris@daedalus.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Chris Harris) Subject: Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC? Date: 1995/07/10 Message-ID: <1995Jul10.110737.66224@ucl.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 105990379 references: <jcgroves-0707951549180001@203.12.52.32> <3tjkgi$d80@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> <mittens-0807950807340001@mittens.net5a.io.org> organization: University College London newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,aus.computers.mac