2 Dec
2012
2 Dec
'12
7:54 p.m.
On Dec 2, 2012, at 22:32, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 7:54 PM -0700 12/2/12, Eric Smith wrote:
I've used them since they first came out and have never
experienced the CoD. Anecdotal evidence suggests
that the later (i.e., 250 and up) drives and/or disks suffered
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Wow! I'll admit that having been hit by the 'click of death', they scare the
**** out of me. This is actually the first I've heard of
anyone trying to use a Zip Disk for a PDP-11.
I've pretty much *only* used ZIP disks on my various 11s (Unibus and Qbus) for more
than ten years. At this point they're much more reliable than the legacy drives.
from either engineering shortcomings or a total lack of
QA.
I've never used anything other than the 100s, largely because
those were all the SCSI ones I ever had and I primarily used
them on Macs (somehow I have an ATA internal one
and a SCSI external one as well; I don't recall hearing
good things about the USB ones, even the early ones).
That said, I don't usually put anything important on them
anymore, because why risk it? But almost all of my
spare SCSI hard drives have died at this point, and I
just bought 18 disks at a yard sale for a dollar, so this is
my best bet for hobbyist stuff at the moment.
- Dave