🚀 go-pugleaf

Mike Muise (mjmuise@novice.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: 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?

I have to share my experiences, I spose.  I use my Zip to grab stuff from 
the comp lab on campus.  144 Mac quadra 800's.  I just plug it in and FTP 
my hearts content.  I then take the drive home and plug it into my PC.  
No problems.  The SCSI offers FAR more versatility than the Parrallel 
version does.  Not ONLY can you use it on Macs and SCSI equiped PC's, but 
you can use it under most x86 unixes, with Sparcstation, With Atari's, 
Amigas, etc.  I understand your point, but you're limited to the x86 
platform running DOS, Windoze, or OS/2, if you go with the parallel.  For 
many people this is fine, but for a good number of people, this just 
doesn't hack it.


Daniel Whicker  (heimdall@mail.utexas.edu)
Music Education Major at the University of Texas at Austin