I suspect that would be enough storage. I have not seen the zip collection. I guess the first step is to find out how much space is required.
I will recommend that she not depend on them. And I will empower her. That's all I can do. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > The 16gb usb thumb drives are well under $100 now, which hold ~64 > 250mb zip disks or 160 100mb zip disks, roughly speaking :) > Obviously a usb hard drive would hold much more for cheaper, but yeah > storage is getting really cheap, see newegg.com or similar... > > Do **NOT** allow your friend to rely on old zip disks PLEASE ;) > > regards, > > Ben > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The first step would be to move them to the hard disk. >> She hasn't gotten around to that. I wonder if she ever >> will. >> >> And this computer has no DVD or CD writer. We had to >> use her son's computer to burn the Ubuntu CD. >> >> Even if it did, I wonder if a 133MHz computer could >> keep the write buffer full. I doubt it. >> >> -- >> Allen Brown >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown >> >> >> >> > How about backing up the zip disks to dvd's. Then use flash >> > drives for replacements. >> > Jim K >> > Allen Brown wrote: >> >> She has a boatload of old zip disks. I can relate. My >> >> Dad created a boatload of C64 floppys. I have transferred >> >> a bunch to hard drive, but there are so many. And it takes >> >> so much time. >> >> >> >> The other thing about Gentoo is that it is for experts. >> >> I wanted something that she could install when she is in >> >> Michigan. With Ubuntu that is possible. Of course, I >> >> know you know that. >> >> >> > H >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
