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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Do the 'zip accelerator' cards work as scsi adaptors?
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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 05:42:44 GMT
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Bottom line: The ZIP drive is a really slow hard drive, but a really
fast floppy drive. (I periodically have to send 20-40meg files to
people, and the ZIP is really nice for that.)
- Tim Kientzle
In article <4tbbi5$g91@news.inc.net>, Jeremy Nelson <nelson@cs.uwp.edu> wrote:
>Zip SCSI to HD -- 2:48 (about 4.6 megs per minute)
>
>Is that accurate? Its really disappointing to me if thats all that i
>can hope for out of it -- ill probably return it if thats the max.