On Mar 8, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I still have both 5.25 and 3.5" syquest drives, but I prefer the Zip drives. The syquest drives were great for their time but the zips were smaller and higher capacity.
Yes, but the Zip drive came along about 5-10 years later, so. :-) I have lots of fond childhood memories of running games off a SyQuest drive in my dad's lab in the late '80s and early '90s on a Mac IIci; the Zip drive didn't come around until about 1996 (I have an internal one on my Power Mac 7300 that I got in 1997).
I have both internal and external jazz drives. I always had good luck with them but the horror stories about them were numerous and widespread!
Jaz drives were great and fast, but I don't have a single drive or disk that seems to work now. I'm hoping it's just bad luck, but I haven't had the urge to potentially destroy more disks to test it out. - Dave