Re: LZ: Fw: Bad Newz, lotz of it
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Bill Herman wrote:
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> At 04:12 PM 6/29/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >At 12:03 AM 6/29/96 +0700, you wrote:
> >>At 09:48 PM 6/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>I hope to goodeness he meant 135 meg ZIP disks or something (not that ZIP
> >>>disks come in 135meg (I don't think they do). A hard disk would cost way
> >>>to much.
> >>
> >>Syquest's new drive that competes with Zip(Iomega) has 135mb disks (off
> >>topic, but I had to say something :).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >ahhh, but the jazz drive (dunno who makes it) has 1gig of space and each
> >disk costs about 89$ or so
> >food for thought.
> >chris
> Well first off Iomega make the Jazz as well as the Zip and the Ditto and
> Bernoulli (did I leave anything out ?). And the Jazz is ment to be used as
> a true to life hard dive, while Syquest, Zip, Bernoulli are only ment to be
> very large floppy drives (why do we still call them floppies ? ever since
> the 3.5 drive they are hard.) Supposedly the Jazz has transfer rates that
Because the actual disc is floppy, unlike a hard disk, which is (guess) hard!
> can compete will most IDE hard dives.
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