Re: New Member needs mass storage...

[Boris <bivanovi@FLASH.LakeheadU.CA>]

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Yann Nicolas wrote:

> 
> >I recently got a ThinkPad 701C with 8 MB RAM and a 720 Million Byte
> >(what a scam) Hard Drive.  Least to say I though I got a good deal
> 
> Huh? What do you mean a scam? I got my 701C last Thursday (with 16 megs and

Well, I meant the million byte MB versus Megabyte is a scam, on IBMs
part...

> That's what I use (at home and work) and I love it. If you have the cash you
> could spring for the Jaz drive (from Iomega as well)... It cost $599 (for
> the external version), but each disk (well more like cartridge) hold 1 gig
> and is as fast as today's hard drives...

Is it as fast, thru the parallel port... I'd consider it,how much is
the cartridge for that.

Much appreciated.