Subj : Re: Got Floppy?
To   : Ed Vance
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 22:35:04

-=> Ed Vance wrote to Mortar M. <=-

 EV> Speaking of the media being flexible.

 EV> When the Zip Drive began selling I wasn't wanting to buy one of them
 EV> because a couple years earlier I saw a 40MB SyQuest removable disk hard
 EV> drive had Metal media inside its plastic case.

 EV> The Zip Drive media was flexible as Flopoies are.

 EV> SyQuest staered advertising that they were going to make a EZ-135 Drive
 EV> and I waited until they sold it and got one because the media was metal
 EV> just like the platter in a HDD is .

 EV> SyQuest went out of business shortly later.


I have one of those drives in a Pentium PC that I've good, along with
some 40M and 200M SyQuest disks.  Interesting hardware indeed, but I
obtained it *after* I bought a Zip Drive.

The Zip Drive is mostly dead, failed, but the SyQuest drive and Disks
mostly work.
 
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