On Feb 3, 2005, at 3:47 PM, David Elmo wrote:
I understand that many folk use little USB devices too for this sort
of thing. Me, well, I like the feel of these solid zip disks, the tough
brother of a floppy, the way they fit in small neat tough clear cases, I
better stop as I am feeling a need to discuss this with my shrink
urgently...
Far FAR more computers have CD drives or USB ports than have Zip drives. In fact, Zip drives are becoming a rarity. And if you think they're tough you never got a click-o-death Zip. In my experience Zip drives are mildly more reliable than floppy disks. (Syquest's EZ-Drive 135 MB disks were much faster and more reliable, if less well known and advertised. Zip drives are a monument to 'mediocrity, well advertised' triumphing over technical superiority.)
CDRW's will probably not work 1000 times, but watch for sales and rebate deals. I picked up a 100-pack of CDR-disks for nothing and a 250-pack for $3.50. At those prices using a write-once CD to transfer even 6K of data becomes reasonable.
(my current minimum record for 'I *bleeping* have to get this little driver on this *bleeping* computer' file transfer using a CD.)
On MODERN computers, using a CDR disk is as simple as pooping it in the drive, dragging the file to the disk and ejecting the disk.
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