12 Nov
1998
12 Nov
'98
6:33 p.m.
This works very well provided use is few times a week
not daily use
hours on end. Ditto to saving much life for laptop floppy drives so
that zip drive make perfect sub and networking is best still.
I use mine for things like a zip rescue disk, a very cool thing norton
utilities now does. With a floppy and this rescue disk you can *boot*
your win95 machine even if the hard disk is munged, then use norton to
fix the problem. When I have really large amounts of data to move about
I burn a cdrom of it.
Except backups. Call me old fashioned, I like to be able to update them and
feel guilty throwing a cd away every time, even though I could buy 7 blank
CDs for the cost of one zip cart.
Clicking Of Death is COD in short. It sounds exactly like the
"trump" without the click in working ones but do that twice every 1
second.
That's what happened to the one that croaked. I was annoyed to have to
disembowel my system to extract the drive, but pleased with their support,
especially since I had not registered my drive's warrentee. They checked
the manufacturing date on that serial number and concluded it was still in
warantee (only made a month before I bought it) and replaced it anyway.
We're way off topic here (except these things DO apparently work with
classics like the apple 2 with a SCSI card) but I have to say Iomega did
right by me.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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