>> But these are prety tough compared to traditional magnetig
>> medias (and after All, a Zip is just a high class diskette).
>
>>> Air filters? Ha! They have nothing but a shutter on the cartridge and a door
>>> flap on the drive. Absolute rubbish. It's miraculous that they work even for
>>> a few weeks.
>> Same has been said on 8" FD: These will be damaged within hours
>> when the head engraves any particle ... But they worked well
>> and all FD technologies thereafter.
>> And on the other hand - in what way poor iomega could
>> gain this amount of money, other than selling cheap
>> tech at monopol prices.
> I've had good results from Iomega hardware and media ever since the
> days of the 10 Mb 8" drives that backed up the data on a Tandy 6000
> Xenix system.
I remember these - nice piece of HW, I had two running without
any problem on an IBM-XT.
> The decision to go with the Zip over the Syquest
> EZ135 wasn't much of a contest. [1] A lot of my customers at the
> end of the Eighties had serious problems with their Syquest drives
Never had these - since the 44MB drives for the Atari
I've been using syquests all the time without any
hassle or breakdown. I had almost any type they
offered.
> and [2] somebody wrote a device driver for the parallel Zip-100 for
> Linux and I felt no need to add a SCSI interface to my notebooks.
:) I use SCSI on all my computers (if possible) starting
from my Apple ][+ in 1984, so this is no issue at all.
> I've even gotten a Zip drive to work with a Tandy 1000 by making an
> adapter for the edge card printer connector on that machine. If I
> was a _real programmer_ myself, I guess I'd have figured out how to
> connect it to my Tandy Z-80 and 68000 equipment.
Nice idea - Has anyone a (generic) ATA implementation for
the Z80 and drivers for MS-DOS filesystem under CP/M ?
This could be worth do develop.
Gruss
hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Thu Nov 12 1998 - 11:47:26 GMT