>I am amazed that syquest bit the green weenie while zip drives became the >norm even after the 'click of death' problem became known. > Maybe because they had been digging a big R&D hole since the early days of the 5 meg removable hard disk cartridge. They were groundbreakers and often that's who goes belly up from being too heavily in debt for the development. Remember when a 40 meg hard disk was a big deal and Syquest had the 5meg and then 10meg removable platters (that often had trouble working on any drive except the one they were created on)?
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