[Eug-lug] Linux convert

[silver]

I have so many dead/defective Zip Disks. What a crazy investment on my part.
At it's time the Zip Drive was the only affordable lightweight mostly
portable random storage medium larger than 100MB (besides Syquest and
Bernoulli). Just install a driver then plug into a parallel port and then
hope the damn thing would mount ;-)

Speaking of Zip, EMC agreed to acquired Iomega today.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
To: <abrown at peak.org>; "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group"
<euglug at euglug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux convert


The 16gb usb thumb drives are well under $100 now, which hold ~64
250mb zip disks or 160 100mb zip disks, roughly speaking :)
Obviously a usb hard drive would hold much more for cheaper, but yeah
storage is getting really cheap, see newegg.com or similar...

Do **NOT** allow your friend to rely on old zip disks PLEASE ;)

regards,

Ben


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
> The first step would be to move them to the hard disk.
>  She hasn't gotten around to that.  I wonder if she ever
>  will.
>
>  And this computer has no DVD or CD writer.  We had to
>  use her son's computer to burn the Ubuntu CD.
>
>  Even if it did, I wonder if a 133MHz computer could
>  keep the write buffer full.  I doubt it.
>
> --
>  Allen Brown
>  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
>
>
>
> >   How about backing up the zip disks to dvd's. Then use flash
>  > drives for replacements.
>  > Jim K
>  > Allen Brown wrote:
>  >> She has a boatload of old zip disks.  I can relate.  My
>  >> Dad created a boatload of C64 floppys.  I have transferred
>  >> a bunch to hard drive, but there are so many.  And it takes
>  >> so much time.
>  >>
>  >> The other thing about Gentoo is that it is for experts.
>  >> I wanted something that she could install when she is in
>  >> Michigan.  With Ubuntu that is possible.  Of course, I
>  >> know you know that.
>  >>
>  > H
>  >
>
>
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