Amen!  Kyle, you're my hero and will continue to be......

Tim
On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 04:44  AM, Obi-Wan wrote:

> On 9/27/02 12:20 AM, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Broadcast into 
> the
> ether:
>
>> Yeh, I found this almost straight away. I have a locked Zip Disk that 
>> I
>> back up all my accounting spreadsheets to. I tried to put my disk in
>> when i upgraded to Jaguar and OS X just went 'pthewwy' and spat it out
>> again. Grrrr....
>
> I have to ask...why on earth does anyone use a Zip or Jaz Drive
> anymore??????  Why?  You pay $10/100mb of *delicate* storage that can 
> be
> destroyed by magnetized fields, dust, heat etc.  You could buy a CD 
> burner
> and spend 39�/700mb of storage that is guaranteed up to 11 years.  Why 
> use a
> Zip?  You shoulnd't even be allowed to complain about it.  It is sheer
> stupidity.  The burner would pay for itself in 10-15 Zip disks?!?!?  
> Couple
> that with the fact that if you are sharing data not everyone has a Zip
> drive...but everyone has a CD drive nowdays.  It just doesn't make 
> sense.
>
> I have seen far too many clients of mine lose important data to Iomega
> drives for it to be a coincidence.
>
> Do the math.
--
America, it's not illegal to be stupid here.


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