18 May
2009
18 May
'09
9:22 p.m.
2009/5/18 David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>:
Yup. Sony is a large content-provider, too. They crippled MD so badly
it never came into its own.
I still use them. They hold more data than I could ever dream of ever
having to store back when some of my hardware was current. And even on
some of my more current machines I have internal drives. For those
that don't, I have FireWire and USB ZIP750 drives, and SCSI ZIP250's.
On some machines with slow network interfaces, ZIP sneakernet is a
nice and fast way of transfering larger files.
They're dirt cheap on eBay, nowadays. Never suffered click-of-death,
either. Trouble was, though, people thought of them as removable hard
drives, instead of really big floppies.
.tsooJ
Sony Minidiscs
Sony botched this one badly. ?It could have replaced the floppy disk years
before Iomega tried to do so with the Zip. Zip disks
I had a professor who said that Iomega names its products after the sound
the product makes when it dies.