i did, actually. i really tried very hard to make the zip standard work. but it really just doesn't. blank cds and dvds are just so cheap and pen drives are far superior to zip. zip is dead technology for a long while. i don't even think i could sell my zip stuff on ebay for the cost of shipping it.
it was cool in the beginning, to have a floppy drive that was not 1.2 meg, but 100 then 250 and then 750 meg. however, you can get 100 recordable single sided dvd discs for 18 bucks delivered from new egg (well, at least i did), so why the hell would you mess about with zip, especially as you will be hard pressed to find a machine with a zip drive today unless you happened to just set it up that way for your own internal use? On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:03 -0400, "Gary Hurst" <jabbahur...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > i think the days of zip drive are pretty much done > > Did anyone ever really *use* them? I remember a year or two where most > PCs had a Zip drive but I can never recall anyone I know ever using > them. I do recall many of them being plagued with problems, eating > disks or refusing to eject them, etc. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090908/032d0916/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
