Subj : Got Floppy?
To   : Ed Vance
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 12:40 pm

 Re: Got Floppy?
 By: Ed Vance to Mortar M. on Fri Apr 25 2025 10:08 pm

EV> When the Zip Drive began selling I wasn't wanting to buy one of them
EV> because a couple years earlier I saw a 40MB SyQuest removable disk hard
EV> drive had Metal media inside its plastic case.

EV> SyQuest staered advertising that they were going to make a EZ-135 Drive
EV> and I waited until they sold it and got one because the media was metal
EV> just like the platter in a HDD is .

EV> SyQuest went out of business shortly later. Ed

For a short time, I had a SyQuest Sparq drive, which used 1GB removable hard drive cartridges.  I thought it was really cool, but I didn't know anyone else who had a Sparq drive (maybe just one of my friends).  I later got a zip drive though, because my college had some computers that had zip drives.

I thought the late 90s was an interesting time with all those different removable media formats being released - especilly with 2 different ones from the same company (Syquest's Sparq and the 440MB one you mentioned).

Nightfox
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