20 Apr
2012
20 Apr
'12
11:46 p.m.
On 04/20/2012 11:32 PM, Jeff Jonas wrote:
Long ago, a fellow was so pissed off with his Vydek
word processor that he sponsored a floppy-flinging contest
for his stock of 8" floppies.
We ought to have a similar contest for Iomega products!
After they "got suits" their stuff did indeed turn to crap, but let's
not forget to give some credit where credit is due. Back In The
Day(tm), I used a 20+20 (20MB per cartridge 8") Bernoulli Box daily for
about two years, VERY heavy use, and never had any trouble with it. I
never even had a cartridge fail, with probably thirty in use. Shortly
after that time, my employer was filled to overflowing with 44MB 5.25"
Bernoulli Boxes. We had some failures with those, but overall, for
removable media, they were extremely reliable.
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.
Around the time of the Jaz drive was when things started to go wrong.
Those things were all but useless; every single one that I knew of died
eventually. But before that, their removable mass storage systems were,
in my experience, quite good.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA