21 Apr
2012
21 Apr
'12
12:17 p.m.
On 04/21/2012 01:48 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/21/2012 01:49 PM, 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 exactly that with 44MB Bernoullis. :-)
I did the same with SCSI drives at one point; I had SCSI on the machines at
home, and it wasn't a big deal to drop a SCSI HBA into one of the machines
at work and just sneakernet a drive back and forth.
I never found CD to be particularly reliable, and at that point in time
there wasn't really anything else for moving reasonable amounts of data (I
did try DAT, but that seemed quite error-prone too). My home 'net
connection was fast enough that "floppy-sized" chunks of data I could just
transport by FTP or email.
cheers
Jules
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.