29 Nov
2009
29 Nov
'09
2:27 p.m.
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, M H Stein wrote:
Only sad if you want it to be...
No problem finding a working ZIP drive for free or next to nothing
these days; all kinds of them on eBay at .99 with no bids, or just
ask on the various forums and I'm sure someone'll be happy to get
rid of one.
Get a BUNCH of the free drives. The dead outnumber the living.
Drives that tested OK may already be dead.
Never had any problems with my drives or disks, FWIW.
Their Bernoulli drives seemed to be OK.
But, even their ZIP drives were not their least reliable product.
I bought a NEW Ditto 3200 for backup. Their "tech support" required
payment BEFORE reaching a human, with a promise of reimbursement if they
acknowledged the problem as being theirs. There was literally no way to
ask them whether the drive supported the Verbatim "extended" media. At
Comdex, I cornered one of their people and he gave me a copy of the
"updated" software. The drive did not work long enough to get the
software loaded.
How about their "Jaz" drives?
their "click" drives? In which the "click of death" was administered
DURING manufacturing.