[Coco] OT... 90's storage formats

[Frank Pittel]

Thanks for the subject change! :-)

I have a scsi Jazz drive that I use with my coco. The 1gig give me an almost
stupid amount of storage for Nitros!! :-) It's also fast.

Frank



On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:03:22PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> Heh, changing the subject of this to OT...
> The only time I dealt with the SyQuest was with a parallel version.  I
> thought I was going to have to smash it out of anger it was soooooo
> slooooow....
> 
> Guess I never tried the SCSI version.
> 
> Last year I threw out a whole box of the 1G version of the Syquest
> disks, as well as many Jaz disks and drives.
> I guess I could have put them on ebay, but I was in charge of moving
> my office to another building, there was so much old hardware that I
> had no time to worry about the nostalgia factor.
> 
> Truthfully, I really didn't think anyone would be using a Jaz or
> Syquest drive for any reason.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Sean wrote:
> >>
> >> Oh, I got a ZIP drive in early '95 for my first PC.  Hell of a time
> >> finding them in stock back then, they sold out fast.  At the time I
> >> wished there was a SCSI interface to use it with my CoCo!
> >
> > I, too, remember quite a wait to get a ZIP drive early on. I had a SCSI
> > model, but it could not be used on the CoCo since at the time the CoCo SCSI
> > interfaces did not provide hardware parity. Instead, I used it on my MM/1.
> >
> > In speaking with some Atari ST vendors on GEnie, they too had faced similar
> > problems and one guy gave me the specs for the one chip they used to add
> > hardware parity to their Atari interface. I do not know if other CoCo
> > interfaces came out that supported the parity (CLoud-9s?) but it was a drag
> > not being able to use these on my CoCo.
> >
> > Instead, I chose SyQuest EZ135 -- faster and more storage and similar
> > prices. Alas, SyQuest lost the format war.
> >
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