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

[Steve Ostrom]

I have a few of Mark's "over 100 units".  I have a few SyQuest EZ 135 drives 
connected and love them.  No data loss in many years.  Only an occasional 
cartridge is bad from the start, and they get tossed.

-- Steve --


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Marlette" <mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT... 90's storage formats


>
> We sold over 100 units of the TC^3 SCSI interface.
>
> Jaz, Zip, SyQuest so they are out there.
>
> Mark
> Cloud-9
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "richec" <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 4:31:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT... 90's storage formats
>
> Frantically waving my hands... I do 8-). they make great data backup 
> devices.
> I have three attached to my peecee.
>
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 00:03:22 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.
>> >
>> >                -- A
>> >
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