21 Apr
2012
21 Apr
'12
3:10 p.m.
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Yep, the Zip was the best way to set up a sneakernet. Before I had hardline
Internet at home and just dialed up, I would take Zips to work, download stuff
and take the disks home.
I did something similar except I used a Sun IPX.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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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.