1 Dec
2009
1 Dec
'09
12:15 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Pemberton" <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Different take on 10 Yr. 'RULE'
Teo Zenios wrote:
I have quite a few drives (since I collect old mac and beige g3 and B&W
units came with them plus some others I got back in the day for the PC) and
all of them work.
The disks are useful for moving drivers around that normally do not fit onto
one floppy if the machine does not have networking at the moment.
I was thinking non optical when I wrote that. I
bet most CDR/RW burners
of ZIP drive vintage are recycled by now, yet I still see zip drives all
over the place (even thrift stores).
Ah, but how many of those Zip drives are still in working order?
As I recall, the main failure mode was damaged (or badly manufactured)
discs ripping the heads off the mounting arm. Once this happened, that
drive would destroy any disc inserted into it from then onwards. In some
cases, those discs would then become "killer discs" thus destroying more
Zip drives, and so on and so on.
I've got a ZipPlus and the parallel cable somewhere; it more or less
works, but needs a new power supply. Can't be bothered spending money on
something I'm not going to use... I don't think I've used it since I got
my first CD writer (a Freecom 8x4x32, aka Philips CDD4801 -- still doing
sterling service in my brother's PC).
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/