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

[Sean]

Yeah, thanks for letting me know I could have had an awesome storage
medium/supply for the CoCo community.   :)
I tossed about 50 Jaz disks into the trash.  Then again, I assume just
one Jaz disk would be enough to hold every CoCo program that ever
existed.

I was basically emptying out a 15 year old IT attic.  Everything was
getting tossed.  Some of the stuff I was amazed at.  No CoCo stuff,
all IBM based.  There was a lab room with an IBM PS-2 on a shelf still
plugged in, that I powered up and it booted DOS. Then I typed 'win',
and lo-and-behold, windows 3.0 appears!  After a couple minutes of
wonder, and checking out it's 40 meg hard drive, "THROW IT OUT!"  I
was forced to say.

There was a big rack of "SCO UNIX" boxes on a bookshelf. I chuckled a bit...

If it wasn't my job to clear the room, I would have saved a lot more stuff. :)

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> >
>> >                -- A
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