[geeks] Zip disks (Nightmare on Iomega street )

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:33 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Zip disks
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:13:43PM -0800, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Does anyone use Zip anymore?  I've got a Zip Plus that's 
> just sitting
> > doing nothing...
> 
> A client bought me a USB Zip 250 drive a couple of months ago just so
> I could read some old Zip disks.. but since then the drive 
> just sits in
> a drawer in case i need it again.
> 
> The problem with Zip drives was that they sold the drives almost at
> cost, and tried to make the profit on the *media*.  Should have been
> the other way around.
>

The problem with zip drives was simply that they didn't work worth
a c**p (as anyone who has lost a significant backup or been stopped
cold during a presentation by the "click-of-death" will attest.) A
transportable media that is not reliable is worthless to me. The
final nail in the coffin as far as I was concerned was when I had
a zip drive mangle a disk in such a way that it mangled all the other
drives it was inserted into.  I still shudder when I think of that
particular fiasco.  The idea may have been good, but the execution
was a technical nightmare... just my $0.02 worth.

-al-
-acorda at 1bigred.com


 
> Bill
> 
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> Austin, TX
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