Syquest drives were a boon before portable hard drives were a thing. Used them to quickly image PS/2 machines back when all it took was xcopy z: c: /e /v /q /h On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:18 AM David Riley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Mar 8, 2018, at 11:10, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I have a vague recollection of products called bernoulli and syquest (sp?)? But I don't remember the details of them. I agree with Herb, Zip was quite ubiquitous..
Bernoulli and SyQuest were essentially the predecessor formats to Zip and Jaz, respectively (though SyQuest drives and media were WAY more reliable than Jaz drives and media, which were mainly a great way to accidentally lose your data). I LOVED the 44 and 88 MB 5.25" SyQuest drives when I was younger. Like Zip and Jaz drives, they're SCSI, so they work well on vintage machines that can use SCSI.
Dave McGuire is a Bernoulli fan and could probably elaborate more on those.
- Dave