With all this discussion about Zip drives, I can't help but throw my two cents into the ring, if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors :)
In the advertising business where art directors, graphic designers, photographers, pre-press houses and printers all need to share files with each other, the Zip drive was King. This came about before the availabilty of inexpensive CD-R drives and broadband internet. While perhaps not the best solution, it became a defacto standard in the industry and, I'm sure, in others as well. Now I appreciate the good thrashing Jeff has given the medium since I have had "issues" with zip (and worse, Jazz) drives myself and I can sympathize. Plus, I'm not nearly as familiar with the history of Iomega and the apparently legendary "click-of-death" syndrome. I must point out, if it hasn't been already, that Apple must have thought zip drives were a good idea since they were included in so many PowerMac systems. I'm sure that also accounts for the widespread use of a less-than-ideal removable storage medium. I personally never trust them although I use them all the time. I just treat them as "temporary" storage. That is, here today, gone tomorrow. But when my LAN is down, it's a great way to get files back & forth between my poor isolated machines. One quirky thing I've never solved that perhaps someone here can explain. Occasionally the MacOS (version 8.1 & 8.6 at least) sees a mounted zip volume as a fixed drive. When trying to eject it, I get the message "This volume will reappear on the desktop when you restart", and the disk remains in the drive and won't eject unless I push the manual eject button. I've even had to drill a hole on the zip bezel in my 6500 because I had a zip disk "stuck" in the drive like this. Never figured it out other than to restart and push the eject button. Anyway, there's my spin on it. Carlos -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
