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Zip drives FTW
by jjgreen 2y ago
Zip drives FTW
- bombcar 2y agoClick. Click. Click.
- SomeoneFromCA 2y agoNothing bets a hardrive wrapped in a blanket, in case you accidentally hit or drop the bag you put it in. This is how we did in my university, in late 1990s.
- SanjayMehta 2y agoJazz drives FTL Literally threw one against a wall to destroy it and never get tempted to use one ever again. Went back to a 150Mb QIC tape drive for a while thanks to Jazz. The stuff of nightmares.
- nubinetwork 2y agoJaz was really that bad? I've been pondering buying a scsi one for my retro PC.
- hypercube33 2y agominidisk or superdisk ftw
- SanjayMehta 2y agoLook up the Jaz drive click of death. It was in a class of its own.
- nubinetwork 2y agoI knew Zip has them, but I've only ever seen 2 or 3 Jaz drives, and they were working fine in the late 90s... Shame really, CF to IDE and bluescsi don't work on every PC.
- pasquinelli 2y agoi only used a zip drive once or twice. obviously that was decades ago, but in my head they are still the height of computing luxury.
- doublerabbit 2y agoUntil the click of death. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death I'm more in favour of MiniDisc. Compact enough, large enough for storage but Sony screwed up with DRM requiring a Sonic Stage, eurk.