Comparison of Zip and EZ-135 drives

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Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/info/hdwr/w ... -mouse.hqx

This is a simple circuit which can be used as a wireless mouse with
WACOM's ART/Z digitizer boards. No batteries are required and total parts
should be less than $20. I use mine instead of a regular mouse and no
longer need worry about moving mouse pads and digitizer. I simply grab the
pointing device which is appropriate and run it on the WACOM.

Recommend submission to the tech category.

Guy Kuo





Here is the summary of the answers I got for the question I asked on
December 18th in Info-Mac Volume 13 Issue 176:

|I have just added a second internal disk drive in my Macintosh, and would
|like to make it the boot disk while keeping the old disk still bootable in
|case of problems. Infortunately, whatever I do, the Mac insists to boot
|from the old disk.
|- Why? What can I do?

The short answer:
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What worked for my purpose was to exchange the SCSI ids of the disks,
putting the new disk at target 0, and the old target 0 disk at target 1.
Now I can use Startup Disk to choose whichever of these two disks as boot
disk, and at the next restart the mac boots from the chosen disk. The
reason it works has to do with the fact that the Mac tries longer to boot



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To: Info Mac
something?
Resent-To: backmod

The summary that I posted posted in Info-Mac and comp.sys.mac.hardware a few
days ago ("SUMMARY: Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth
something?") stirred a few more comments that relativize the very negative
opinions that were expressed.

In short:
The card can be used as a good non accelerated 24 bits color card if it is
used with the proper drivers (8*24GC 7.0.1 driver and "Cache On" extensions).
The possibility of extending its GWorld memory (with the same SIMMS as for a



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Here is a summary of the answers I received and informations I found out about
my question: "Is the Apple 8*24 GC video display board worth something?"

In short:

It is not worth buying it. Acceleration is not compatible with System 7 (my



Here's the summary of articles I received today 9-9-92

I would like to thank all of the follwoing persons for responding to my
query on
x-rays and macs. Thanks again for the quotes and personel stories you passed
on. c-

8 IN%"[email protected] 8-SEP-1992 Traveling with a Mac
9 IN%"[email protected] 9-SEP-1992 Mac and Airport
10 IN%"hp48sx@wuarchive 9-SEP-1992 RE: Planes, X-Rays and My Mac
11 IN%"JM144%MOLECULAR- 9-SEP-1992 Xrays and IIsi
12 IN%"[email protected] 9-SEP-1992 Computers thru airport security
13 IN%"[email protected] 9-SEP-1992 RE: Planes, X-Rays and My Mac
14 IN%"[email protected] 9-SEP-1992 Planes, X-Rays and My Mac
15 IN%"davegrow@tecnet1 9-SEP-1992 [ANS] Planes, X-Rays and My Mac
16 IN%"herren@middlebur 9-SEP-1992 x-rays & Macs



I just purchased a ZIP drive today, so the following is a benchmark of
the Zip drive compared to an internal and external hard drive, as well as
the standard 1.44 MB floppy disk.


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[Internal] Apple (Sony) 1.44 MB FDHD Floppy Disk Drive
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Volume: untitled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Size: 1415K

test size = 512K
(using a temporary contiguous file of size 512K)

Pass 1:
Latency = 50.00 ms (600 RPM)
Ave. Seek = 43.08 ms, (access = 93.08 ms)



This is the second (and hopefully the last!) revision of my comparison of the
Zip and EZ drives. I corrected a very confusing typo (thanks to Dan Hoefferth
for pointing it out) and I removed the rumour about Zips causing problems with
internal CD-ROM drives. (I've had many messages from people working with such
configurations telling me they had encountered no problems whatsoever.)


Zip vs. EZ-135: A Comparison
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version 1.1

This is a comparison of two low-capacity low-cost mass storage devices,
Iomega's Zip drive and SyQuest's EZ-135 drive. The comparison is based on
opionions of users of both drives sent to me by e-mail, and also on some
information pulled from www pages. It was compiled by Florin Neumann
.