Description

SyQuest Technologies were a very popular removable cartridge hard drive in the ’80’s and ’90’s. It’s major competitor at the time was the Iomega Zip Drive. While faster and better than a Zip, they never captured the home market. The disks are bootable with a suitable operating system installed. SyQuest Utilities can be found here. They are version 4.1 and are fully compatible with System 7.0, 68020 processor and PowerPC.

Available in 44MB, 45MB, 88MB, 105MB, 135MB, 230MB, 270MB, these removable disks were popular in industries that needed to send, exchange, or archive large files such as graphic designers, desktop publishing industry and many more. Predecessor to what we use USB flash drive for these days.

Many manufactures jumped on board and put a Syquest drive into their own external housing.

Available Drives: Most come with at least one cartridge.

A) 44MB Various manufacturers. Power User shown. Centronics 50 interface. Comes with 4 cartridges.

B) 45MB Mass Microsystems DataPak. Works great! Centronics 50 interface. Includes one cartridge.

C) 88MB Mass Microsystems DataPak. Centronics 50 interface. Drive recognized but won’t read 88 or 44MB disks. Comes with 3 untested cartridges.

D) 135MB SyQuest EZ Drive w/power adapter. Centronics 50 interface. No good disk for this one, so operating status unknown.

E) 105MB Club Mac Mighty SQ. Works Great! Centronics 50 interface. Comes with 4 cartridges.

F) 270MB Lacie. SCSI 2 HD-50 interface. Works great! Will read 105MB and 270MB cartridges! Comes with two cartridges.

G) 44MB Various manufacturers. Non working. Centronics 50 interface. Comes with 4 catridges.

All except (D) use a standard computer power cable and are included with purchase.

Terminators are rare here. Located here when available.

SCSI cables for all except (F) are here. And SCSI 2 cables here.