Ah yes. the Iomega Zip drive...and the chatter of death. I threw all of my zip drives away after I had my data turned to powder a couple of times. shugate made working drives in the 60's or 70's and Iomega made chatter of death in the 90's.
I have 4 zip disks in original shrink wrap up on a shelf. anyone want them, they are yours for the price of shipping. I don't think anyone ever loaded software for sale on a zip disk. At 05:15 PM 11/8/2007, you wrote: > What about just emailing the file to yourself? I'm sure the computer >isn't so old that it doesn't have a slot that could be plugged into a >phone jack. But that's beside the point. I have 2 Zip drives that >haven't been used in years. A floppy drive? How useless is that with >their minimal storage space? > I have a friend who trashed 17 PCs because the dump fee was cheaper >then keeping them running. With the price of PCs now, not having one >is just a waste of time as compared to crippling along on some ancient >thing. I do admit I do have one ancient one, but it only gets turned >on to play a version of Tomb Raider I have. No pun intended. > >Jeff M > > >On Nov 8, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Constance Warner wrote: > >> "I don't understand why anyone would need a floppy drive now >>days. Not >>since flash drives are so cheap and hold so much more. I even have one >>built into an ink pen." >> >>--Jeff M >> >>If there is stuff you need at work or at home that's only on floppies, >>or if you're using a computer that has a floppy drive but no USB port >>(and that might not be hooked up to a network you can use), then you >>need a floppy drive. >> >>Example: At work, I have to get stuff out of a Windows NT box of the >>pre-USB era. It has a floppy drive. I have to move the stuff into an >>iMac and a Windows XP box that don't have floppy drives, but do have >>USB. Solution: a portable floppy drive that plugs into the USB >>ports of >>the iMac and the Windows box. >> >>There are probably a lot of situations out there where, for some >>reason >>or other, a piece of antiquated equipment is still in occasional >>service, and there is no money to replace the old equipment or staff >>time to systematically remove the data from it. >> >>--Constance Warner > > >************************************************************************ >* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== >* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== >* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name >* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST >* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L >* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress >* Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >************************************************************************ >* List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >* RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >* Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived >************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
