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At 09:09 AM 4/19/96 +0200, Maurice klein Gebbinck wrote:
>Yesterday I went looking for a backup medium which could
>be attached to the parallel port of my ThinkPad 701C. I
>knew tape drives existed, and had heard something of
>EZ drives, but the only thing I could find was a
>Zip drive from iomega. The brochure says it "works like
>a hard drive", can store 100MB on a single disk,
>has a throughput of up to 20MB/min, sustained transfer
>rate of up to 1.25 MB/s(?), seek time of 29 ms, average
>start/stop time of 5/3 s.
>
>Does anybody know this drive? How do the specs compare
>to those of a tape drive or EZ drive (of around $300)?
>And how much does such a drive cost in the US?
I use a parallel zip drive on my 755cs, and I'm happy with it. They're $200
here in the US, and the disks are $50 for a pack of 3.
The stats above sound about right, although I show them as holding 98.3MB,
for what that's worth :) It does 'work like a hard drive', in that you have
random access, which is much handier than a tape.
My favorite part is the weight, it's light enough not to notice when I stick
it in my laptop case, although I recommend buying the lighter power adapter
for $30.
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