Scored a working HD20 for $45. — #14

Post #14 by fairchild

Source Forum	Scored a working HD20 for $45. — #14
Category	Peripherals
Post Date	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 - 02:01
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/scored-a-working-hd20-for-45.26288/

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yes but Booting from the 100 mb scsi zip drive is'nt exactly what i would call fast.

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I timed external SCSI Zip drives back in the 90s and found them to be almost exactly the same speed as a floppy disk on a PC, IIRC. So they really weren't any faster than using a floppy, but they held a lot more, and you got all that unreliability as a special bonus. ;-)

I don't know about the zip drives, but the jazz drives i have are blazingly fast compared to floppies! Maybe a limitation of the zip drive, not the scsi bus.