21 Apr
2012
21 Apr
'12
11:49 a.m.
On 04/21/2012 01:35 PM, David Riley wrote:
I made the same transition for the most part, but kept my Zip disks
around, and have recently started to collect some more. I'm planning to
use them on PDP-11s as removable boot media.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I also used
(and continue to use) a lot of Zip disks, the 100MB
variety, with very low (almost nonexistent) failure rates. I don't use
them anywhere near as often or as "hard" as the others though.
I also had great success with Zip disks back in the day when 100MB was
all there was; I never had one fail, and I used them a LOT. They were
significantly more reliable than floppies at the time.
I never bothered going beyond the 100 MB ones, because at that point
CDRs were becoming economical enough that if I needed to transport
something that large, I'd just burn a CD.