Kevin Tarr wrote:
I'm taking a class. The idiots at Penn State bought all these new fancy smanshy computers for the computer labs. The very first thing I said when I saw them was: idiots, they all come equipped with a CDROM, but no zip drives. How are we supposed to get files OFF the damn things? This has been going on for years: a lot of the programs and such we are working on are bigger than 1.44Mb. It's a freaking commuter school but the profs expect us to spend all our time there and only save our work there. (No this isn't a mandate, I'm not breaking any rules trying to send my files home).Do they have USB ports?
If this is an ongoing thing, buy one of those little USB Memory Keys. I don't know how much they are there, but if you get a little one (say 32Mb) they practically give them away here. (Most people buy 128Mb or 256Mb ones here).
If either the school computer or home computer are running Win98, you may have to do a quick download off the net to make the computer recognise the key, but this is a once only action (until they re-image the computer of course). If they're running Win2000 or WinXP it will just work straight off.
If the USB ports are only at the back, you might want a cable to attach them (which most of the keys come with anyway).
Basically you end up with a floppy which is really small in size, really big in capacity, really durable and reliable, and really fast (in other words, nothing like a floppy at all...)
This is what we are doing at this school to get rid of floppy drives (which account for an enormous proportion of our support calls)
Cheers
Russell C.
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