12 Nov
1998
12 Nov
'98
11:32 a.m.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:36:51 -0700 (MST)
I feel bad for companies that replace junk for free. In a way, it's
great support, but it also indicates that they expect this stuff to
go bad. I almost never have hardware problems (some people fry their
mobo every day), but floppy drives are definitely the least reliable of
all modern PC technology (maybe next to monitors).
I'm curious. I've got 3 zip drives in use, and
they've all performed
flawlessly
except that the one in my PC croaked. I called them
and they fed-exed
me
a new one, and I sent them the old one. *shrug*
--
Jim Strickland
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12 Nov
12 Nov
5:09 p.m.
Junk? Um... I have two other drives that are working flawlessly. The one
that failed was one of the first scsi insider zip drives out. Hardware bugs
happen. The replacement has worked flawlessly ever since.
PS: Don't feel too bad for them. They refurbish the drives and sell them
through places like Damark. :)
-Jim
I feel bad for companies that replace junk for free.
In a way, it's
great support, but it also indicates that they expect this stuff to
go bad. I almost never have hardware problems (some people fry their
mobo every day), but floppy drives are definitely the least reliable of
all modern PC technology (maybe next to monitors).
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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I'm curious. I've got 3 zip drives in
use, and they've all performed
flawlessly
except that the one in my PC croaked. I called
them and they fed-exed
me
>a new one, and I sent them the old one. *shrug* 
12:29 p.m.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:09:17 -0700 (MST)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Daybreak hard drives (was Re: Collectibles for the future)
Junk? Um... I have two other drives that are working
flawlessly. The one
that failed was one of the first scsi insider zip drives out. Hardware bugs
happen. The replacement has worked flawlessly ever since.
PS: Don't feel too bad for them. They refurbish the drives and sell them
through places like Damark. :)
-Jim
To add, I have also a 2nd generation (the one with brass hub) zip
external parallel sitll working for last 1 years.
This works very well provided use is few times a week not daily use
hours on end. Ditto to saving much life for laptop floppy drives so
that zip drive make perfect sub and networking is best still.
Clicking Of Death is COD in short. It sounds exactly like the
"trump" without the click in working ones but do that twice every 1
second.
Jason D.
PS: Got dud zip drive(s) and ruined disks? Send one or two to me, I
need to verfiy the "fabled" jewels bearing and study the designs.
email: jpero(a)cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
6:33 p.m.
This works very well provided use is few times a week
not daily use
hours on end. Ditto to saving much life for laptop floppy drives so
that zip drive make perfect sub and networking is best still.
I use mine for things like a zip rescue disk, a very cool thing norton
utilities now does. With a floppy and this rescue disk you can *boot*
your win95 machine even if the hard disk is munged, then use norton to
fix the problem. When I have really large amounts of data to move about
I burn a cdrom of it.
Except backups. Call me old fashioned, I like to be able to update them and
feel guilty throwing a cd away every time, even though I could buy 7 blank
CDs for the cost of one zip cart.
Clicking Of Death is COD in short. It sounds exactly like the
"trump" without the click in working ones but do that twice every 1
second.
That's what happened to the one that croaked. I was annoyed to have to
disembowel my system to extract the drive, but pleased with their support,
especially since I had not registered my drive's warrentee. They checked
the manufacturing date on that serial number and concluded it was still in
warantee (only made a month before I bought it) and replaced it anyway.
We're way off topic here (except these things DO apparently work with
classics like the apple 2 with a SCSI card) but I have to say Iomega did
right by me.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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