I have so many dead/defective Zip Disks. What a crazy investment on my part. At it's time the Zip Drive was the only affordable lightweight mostly portable random storage medium larger than 100MB (besides Syquest and Bernoulli). Just install a driver then plug into a parallel port and then hope the damn thing would mount ;-)
Speaking of Zip, EMC agreed to acquired Iomega today. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux convert 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 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
