[P1] scsi -> usb?

[Charles Pearce]

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 09:18  PM, John Paul Moore wrote:

>
> On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 08:21  PM, Dan Farley wrote:
>
>>> - I work in three locations and normally drag only the powerbook 
>>> with me,
>>> not any of the peripherals. Must I purchase new jaz and zips, or can 
>>> I
>>> connect them to usb somehow?
>>
>> The price of pen drives with 32/64 MB capacity are only about $20/30 
>> and
>> they hold a ton more than jaz or zips. They are compatible with Win 
>> 2000
>> plus and OSX w/o drivers. Time to reconsider the need for jaz and 
>> zips in my
>> own humble opinion. Shoot - the scsi-usb adaptors cost more.
>>>
>
> Excuse me, I have been hankering for one of those pen drives or 
> keytrain drives, whatever, and waiting for the prices of the really 
> big ones to come down, but a $5 or (full retail price) $10 zip holds 
> 100 mb, and the new ones hold 250mb; the far less reliable jaz will 
> hold one or two gigs. How can you get "a ton more" on a 64mb pen 
> drive? Oh, and the generic usb driver in the MacOS will recognize the 
> zip; haven't tested a jaz cause they never looked good enough for me 
> to buy one.

Try www.tigerdirect.com. Attached is a price list of their pen drives. 
A 128Mb can be obtained for $19.99 (after $20 rebate).

Among my other duties, I oversee about 100 Macs of various kinds in an 
education setting. We have a lot of problems with Zip drives and Zip 
disks (I think they're born to die) and
we are now recommending USB pen drives to our students for transporting 
their work. Zip disks may be cheaper, but they aren't as reliable. 
There are no moving parts in a USB pen drive. I'm not saying they're 
indestructible, but as a test, I threw one against a wall repeatedly, 
have carried it around in my pocket for days on end, and haven't had a 
failure. I haven't had the nerve to try sending it through the washer 
and dryer yet. And, lets not forget how portable they are. Some of the 
newer ones I've seen have removable flash storage cards.

Charles Pearce (charlesp at ksu.edu)