17 Nov
2017
17 Nov
'17
9:26 a.m.
On 11/17/2017 09:17 AM, allison via cctech wrote:
Also the Syquest 270mb IDE/parallel port cartridge
disk.? I have one
that works
and over a dozen carts.? Its still in use in a ITX box using the IDE
interface.? After
two decades of use it seems solid.
I've left out the non-floppy technologies. I have a Squest Sparq,
unused still in its packaging, for example. After being sent one for
evaluation, I rejected it because it was offered only in the
printer-port version, which necessarily limits transfer bandwidth.
But there were plenty of "floppy" technologies, such as the UHD144, or
LS120 or Drivetec stuff. I treat Bernoulli and Zip as a floppy-sort-of
technology, because they are incapable of reading standard floppies, so
I don't include them either, even though they employed flexible media.
--Chuck