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Posted by GMAN on 11/09/06 20:14
In article <1162937887.033541.298430@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "slugbug" <fuzzhead72@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Blue ray will win because it has more space, for example as a back
>> up medium for the PC.
>> It is all about space.
>
> If you truly believe that, then I wish you had been to my yard sale
>about two months ago. I was finally selling my two Superdisk (LS-120)
>drives. Yes, these are the same drives that were developed by Iomega,
>at the same time they were working on the 100 MB Zip drives. Iomega
>eventually spun off the 120 MB Superdisk drives to 3M, and released the
>Zip 100 themselves. 3M spun the project off to form Imation, and both
>formats competed in the marketplace.
>
> Despite the fact that the Superdisk drives held 20% more space,
>despite the fact that motherboard manufacturers built support for them
>into their BIOS as a bootable option, and DESPITE the fact that the
>SuperDisk drives would read and write to a standard 3.5" floppy as
>well, the Zip 100 won the battle.
>
Even in its day, who the hell used 100 MB zip disks when almost every other
medium was larger. By the time Zip's came out, we already had rewriteable CDRW
at 650MB
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