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Message   Kim Gross    Bill Wehrkamp   ZIP drives as media...   December 31, 1969
 6:00 PM *   

Re: ZIP drives as media...

>  Well, a zip drive has a transfer rate of 20 mb/sec.  About the same speed of
>  hard drives.  thats just for the newer zip drives.
> Wow, that's impressive.  How much can one ZIP (tape?  disk?  cartridge?)
> hold?

That is not correct.  It will do around 1 meg a sec, not 20.  As for the
capacity a Zip disk holds 100 megs, and they are about the same size as a 3.5
floppy, only they are thicker.

Kim
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