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Before Zip’s time a bit, but I really liked Syquest’s 44 meg disk and drive. Compared to the Proapp 20 hard drive I’d had hooked up to my ][e, this felt like ma
by Scramblejams 7y ago
Before Zip’s time a bit, but I really liked Syquest’s 44 meg disk and drive. Compared to the Proapp 20 hard drive I’d had hooked up to my ][e, this felt like magic. Twice as much storage, just as fast, and removable?! Incredible!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology
Those were fun times, in part due to the heterogeneity of hardware and operating systems. It seemed like every day there was some odd new device to discover. Even with today’s explosion of consumer electronics, for some reason it feels much more samey-samey than the old days to me.
- kalleboo 7y agoYeah SyQuests were big in the Mac realm, mainly due to graphic design/publishing people being the only desktop users at the time needing such massive capacity in a removeable format. My uncle had one and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.