29 Feb
2008
29 Feb
'08
12:25 a.m.
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 17:45 +0100, jvdg at sparcpark.net wrote:
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
And yet people used them for years (and still do) for storing data for
samplers. I'm not saying I've never heard of Zip disk failures, but I
haven't heard of many and I haven't had one let go myself.
You do tend to find that people make backups of their sampler disks a
lot more than computer disks, maybe because they're more conscious of
the effort involved in creating the data that went onto it.
Gordon
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.