Re: Reflecting upon floppies

[q-funk@citenet.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >Neil Jones-Rodway (STiK tester and Atari Computing columnist)
 >was telling me that in UK, ZiP cartriges are slowly replacing 
 >floppies when files portability is required. He added that he
 >has seen several PC stores that install an internal ZiP drive
 >as a standard item because of this fact.

Jo Even Skarstein was asking:

"Does anyone know if there are IDE versions of ZiP drives?
 SCSI would be a problem on my falcon."

ZiP currently exists in:       IDE internal
                              SCSI internal
                              SCSI external
                        Centronics external (ie: parallel port)
                    
Internal ZiP drives look a bit like CD-ROM drives.
The IDE internal version sells for about $80 each.
You would need an external case for it.

However, doesn't the Falcon have an external SCSI connector
on the back pannel? Why would the SCSI version be a problem?

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