[MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-05 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Anyone remember these? Found these here. Zip 100mb media - no drive. Anyone? mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/me

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-05 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Used them briefly about fifteen years ago, found them unsatisfactory. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On June 5, 2017 10:38:05 PM EDT, Mountain Man via Mercedes wrote: >Anyone remember these? >Found these here. Zip 100mb media - no drive. >Anyone? >mao > >___

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-05 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
I got a couple Zip disks around here. I should pick up a USB drive just to find out what's on the damn things... On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Anyone remember these? > Found these here. Zip 100mb media - no drive. > Anyone? > mao > >

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Yes I remember those, used to use them Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes > wrote: > > Anyone remember these? > Found these here. Zip 100mb media - no drive. > Anyone? > mao > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-05 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Yep, I am moving a bunch and keep planning someday to put a zip drive in an old computer I have 6 or 8 brand new disks, still in the wrapper/ Mountain Man via Mercedes June 5, 2017 at 9:38 PM Anyone remember these? Found these here. Zip 100mb media - no drive.

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-06 Thread Ed Booher via Mercedes
Oh yeah, still have a zip drive in the Power G3 both the Putty and the Blue and White G3's have Zips I think. Dude, NT 4.0 was odd, still have the Workstation install disks around somewhere. Microsoft made some slight code changes to the NT kernel just past 4 because they had claimed that the

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-06 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Zip drive was a factory option in the Mac G4 towers. Mine have them. I found a couple of disks at the thrift shop and bought them to try one day, but I've so far never gotten around to doing it. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http:

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I have an external drive and some disks around somewhere in a box, i think it has a parallel cable? --FT On 6/5/17 11:08 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: Yep, I am moving a bunch and keep planning someday to put a zip drive in an old computer I have 6 or 8 brand new disks, still in

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-06 Thread Dan--- via Mercedes
We had billions of the external SCSI Zip drives when I worked in the schools. Nearly all died from the dreaded "click of death" that affected certain models. I can remember hauling hundreds of them out to the scrap dumpster by the cables... -D > On Jun 6, 2017, at 9:22 AM, Floyd Thursby via Me

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-06 Thread Ed Booher via Mercedes
Iomega had gold on their hands, but their quality control was absolutely horrific. The "click of death" would have been easily avoided by just a little QA on the backend. *Everyone* wanted a Zip back in the day. It is actually my firm belief that the click of death warranty repairs to Macs is what

Re: [MBZ] OT NT4 and Iomega Zip

2017-06-06 Thread Ed Booher via Mercedes
Sorry, I kind of rambled there toward the end. My point was, Iomega had products most everyone in the industry wanted for one use or another. All they had to do was make them quality and the world would have beaten a path to their door. Instead class action lawsuits, bad taste in the public mouth,

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2017-06-06 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I've got one of the USB drives and a SCSI. I'd been keeping them around for "something" but should probably let them go... -Curt From: M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: M. Mitchell Marmel Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 10:43 PM Subje