28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
8:45 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I must have been the only person on earth who had no
dud cartridges or
click of death, and I used ZIP drives a lot for sneakernetting.
I think part of the bad reputation of Zips and Jaz's stemmed from people using them
for storage, rather than transfer.
I often use Zips to quickly get things from one machine to the next. But I'd no more
trust them for storage than I would a floppy. Yet, at the time, forums were full of
stories along the lines of, "I stuck the cartridge in the drive and lo! All my work I
did last spring was gone!"
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