[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ -- consider CD-R

[Mike Holland]

On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Gavin Tweedie wrote:

> > drive though the MO drive IS relatively slow (compared with my fixed
> > drives).
> As are zip/sparq/jaz and all the competitors..

JAZ is supposed to run at HDD-like speeds. (8ms access??)

But consider getting a CD-writer instead.
The media cost is a couple of orders of magnitude lower, which
widens their usefulness.
Writing may be slow, but reading is much faster these days.
Everybody can read CDs.
They are write-once, but multi-session, and at $2.50, who cares?

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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