28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
6:38 p.m.
On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:08, Jules Richardson wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
The two that I have are Colorado (actually H-P) and Conner.
The thing that was nice about the Zip drives was
that they
represented 100MB of inexpensive storage when most of the
alternatives were pretty pricey.
But then people said that about those floppy-connected QIC tape drives
(hmm, those were IOmega too, weren't they?) and lots of people seemed to find that they had
dreadful reliability too.
Seemed nice at the time, but not so good a few months down the line...
I never had much of a problem with them, and got to the point where it took 8
or 9 tapes to do a full backup, which I'd do about every six months or so,
back when.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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