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

[Mark Marlette]

We sold over 100 units of the TC^3 SCSI interface. 

Jaz, Zip, SyQuest so they are out there.

Mark
Cloud-9


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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.
> >
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