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At 08:45 PM 8/7/97 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote: > 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. Syquest 135 disks have always been about 3 for $45 to $50 (locally, not mail order), which is roughly equal to zip for 35% more room and performance more like a real hard drive. That doesn't sound like "*way* too much" to me. The performance difference really came home when I copied ~50 mb from a zip to my syquest. The activity light was on pretty much continously for the zip and that same data rate had the syquest activity light on about 20% of the time. What Syquest was really missing that put Zip in the lead was a rad color plastic case. -Don Perley perley@cadence.com