12 Nov
1998
12 Nov
'98
2:15 a.m.
Hans Franke wrote:
There's one on top of my wife's Win95 machine, one in my rucksack with
my notebook, one on top of this here Linux system. I've lost four or
five cartridges over the past couple of years to "click death", but
then again those cartridges spent a lot of time commuting in a cloth
bag with little climate control..
I've had good results from Iomega hardware and media ever since the
days of the 10 Mb 8" drives that backed up the data on a Tandy 6000
Xenix system. The decision to go with the Zip over the Syquest
EZ135 wasn't much of a contest. [1] A lot of my customers at the
end of the Eighties had serious problems with their Syquest drives
and [2] somebody wrote a device driver for the parallel Zip-100 for
Linux and I felt no need to add a SCSI interface to my notebooks.
I've even gotten a Zip drive to work with a Tandy 1000 by making an
adapter for the edge card printer connector on that machine. If I
was a _real programmer_ myself, I guess I'd have figured out how to
connect it to my Tandy Z-80 and 68000 equipment.
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[Continuing a discussion about modern
removable-media disk drives, which
would be off-topic except that we want to use modern drives on old
computers.]
I'm using ZIPs on all Macs and some early PCs -> on topic .) But these are prety tough compared to traditional
magnetig
medias (and after All, a Zip is just a high class diskette).
Air filters?
Ha! They have nothing but a shutter on the cartridge and a door
flap on the drive. Absolute rubbish. It's miraculous that they work even for
a few weeks.
Dame has been said on 8" FD: These will be damaged within hours
when the head engraves any particle ... But they worked well
and all FD technologies thereafter.
And on the other hand - in what way poor iomega could
gain this amount of money, other than selling cheap
tech at monopol prices.