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To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (5070)	12/12/1997 11:47:00 PM
From: Joseph Chiu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

Very-large magnetic media makes sense for those with high random-access read/write access to the media. CD-W makes great sense for low-cost "write once" use. (Actually, you can always "add" to CD-W until it is full or you "close the session" and stop future additions. If you make it a point to burn only when you are finished, you can store approximately 6x a Zip drive capacity on a single CD-W). At $4 each or less, they're very affordable. I just purchased a SparQ (Parallel) today. First impression: Pretty good - works as advertised. Detailed review to follow....

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (5070)	12/13/1997 1:14:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

>Ever heard of packet writing or Direct CD? Although many older CD-ROM do not handle Direct CD disc properly but this will change when today CD-ROM are multiRead compatible and UDF support in Win98. Zip disk is pretty good in terms of reliability but it is still not comparable to a CD. Also I bet there are more CD-ROM which read Direct CD disc than Zip drive. Also will Zip disk forward compatible with DVD? NO but 2nd generation DVD-ROM will read CDR and CD-RW :o) I do agree with you that Zip makes more sense than SparQ for this purpose.< Ok Andy, now re-read what you wrote. How do explain this to mom and dad? Much easier to say buy a Zip to interchange. No spec jibberish or format soup to contend with. Zip drives read and write Zip disks very easily. (Oh and I did just buy a CD-RW so I'm not against them, its just not as easy to use for non-technical folks) Same may be true for SparQ if that flourishes as well. (got the SyQuest link in)