Emax

>From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>

>Syquest was the largest removable media drive company before
>Iomega ran them out of business with the cheaper (in more
>than just cost) Zip drives.

Now now, John.
there was a reason iomega ran syquest out of business.
Take an original syquest cartrige, lift it up say about 50cm off the table 
and then drop it onto the table. Whats the chance that your cart is still at 
all usable? I believe the carts were rated for about a 20cm drop. Very 
unsuitable for portable mass data storage and transfer.

And if you had a problem with something breaking, even if you had looked 
after you carts and not droped them - but something else had failed, Syquest 
were arrogant and basically completely unsympathetic.

After zips came out, syquest responded with the ez135 drive, that was 
basically trying to copy zip, but by that time most of their user base, 
frustrated with them for years had found a usable alternative, and had 
already deserted them.



julian

(who has had a zip drive get click of death and destroy data, but still uses 
them, though with regular backups to the PC nowdays)


"Give a man a stick of gum and he will chew for a day. Teach him how to 
scrape gum off stuff and he will chew for a lifetime"


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