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At 03:54 AM 7/31/97 -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: >Hi again, > >I went to Compucentre today here in Sherbrooke and noticed a "Shark" removable ... 250MB disks (3 for CAN$180), drive for ~CAN$400, the guy tol us they had only sold one... > >Yet it is about 2/3 the size of ZIP, plus it doesnt need any ext. power (draws power from keybd), I must say, very "design"... > >Shark any? > >os. I hate carrying the whole ZIP stuff around.. although it sure beats any1.44 mb floppy :) There's a good article on removable storage in the current PC/Computing. Basically, it gave the Shark some reasonably high marks. But the real issue that makes the Zip win hands down is that it is the closest thing to a "standard" as there is in the industry. So many people have them that you can reasonably expect to send someone a Zip disk with stuff on it and they'll be able to read it--or at least they know someone that can. This is the first time anyone has been able to do that with anything that holds more than a floppy. If the Shark had come along a couple years earlier and maintained the cheap media (per MB) that the Zip has, it might be the standard. But its a little late to the game and therefore will be relegated to relative obscurity. SyQuest had their chance--I used their 105 MB removable (not the 135 MB that competed with the zip early on) and later their 270 MB removable (which I still have), but the media cost *way* too much. With Zip disks as low as $15 a piece and sold in packages like floppies (not to mention *looking* like floppies), they're hard to resist. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California