[Coco] My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

[Frank Pittel]

I also got a syquest EZ123 instead of a Zip drive. It wasn't a format
war that Syquest lost. The hardware was very unreliable. I've got a
stack of bad disks that failed quickly. My understanding was that the
tolerances were to tight for a drive with removable disks that use hard
platters. 

Frank


On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:46:36PM -0500, Allen Huffman 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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