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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?

This is a pretty good reason for the drives being more popular on macs.  
In order for a Zip to be portable on a PC you would have to have the 
parallel version.  On a mac the SCSI version is portable.....only the 
oldest macs dont have SCSI and installing one is as easy as plugging it in.

This may be the case with the parallel version for PC's as well.  How 
much configuration does a PC system need to work with a zip?  Also, what 
is the throughput of PC parallel ports?


Scott
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