A successor drive, known as the SyQuest EZFlyer, was released in 1996. It was backwards compatible with the EZ 135 disks, and could utilize a higher capacity 230 MB disk.[3]
The EZ 135 drive was available with several interfaces. The external drive was available with parallel or SCSI interfaces; the internal drive was available with IDE or SCSI interfaces.
SyQuest EZ 135 Drive Cartridge
Pricing
At introduction, the EZ 135 Drive had the following prices (in US dollars):
135 MB cartridge: $20.00
EZ 135 Drive – external SCSI: $240.00
EZ 135 Drive – internal IDE: $200.00
Sales
The EZ 135 Drive was designed to be a competitor to the IomegaZip drive and LS-120 SuperFloppy. The original box listed several advantages:
Much faster
Higher capacity
2-year warranty
Additionally the removable hard disk cartridges included a 5-year warranty.
Unfortunately, the EZ 135 drive was not backwards compatible with other SyQuest drives, and the original capacity was never increased beyond 135 MB. The Zip drive became popular and SyQuest's sales declined.
^Peter H. Lewis (October 3, 1995). "New Ways to Store Backup Copies". The New York Times.
^"3M Chases the Dream of Building a Better Disk". The New York Times. March 11, 1996.
^"Letters". The New York Times. June 4, 1988. the EZ Flyer is backward-compatible with the Syquest 135
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to SyQuest EZ 135.
SYQT homepage
, MIT, archived from the original (plain text) on 2007-03-11.
"EZFlyer Disk", Encyclopedia (definition), PC Mag.
March 21, 2023
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