Re: Zip Drive

I do burn all data at the end of the year to DVDs. However, I dislike both
CDs and DVDs when I want to transport data from my home computer to my
office computer (which I do almost every day) because they reset attributes
to read-only, and I have to reset after copying to the other computer -- not
a major task, but it's annoying.

MaryL


"t.cruise" <t__cruise@[NoSpam]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It would be less expensive to burn what is on those ZIP disks to CDs or
> DVDs than to
> purchase another ZIP drive. Also, ZIP disks have moveable parts and can
> fail. CDs and
> DVDs do not have any moveable parts.
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> "MaryL" <stancole1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Terry" <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > When the first zip drives came out there were some computer makers
>> > including them or giving you the option of adding one.
>> >
>> > I think it is a shame that these never took off. I still have one in
>> > my machine and I have one in my niece's machine so we can swap data
>> > between us but not with the rest of the world
>> >
>> > I threw away my floppy drives years ago. I wish that the zip drive
>> > had replaced the floppy for portable reusable media.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I still like Zip drives, too, even though they're now pretty obsolete.
>> Fortuantely, I never had any problems with them. If you already have
>> lots
>> of Zip disks, you might want to invest in an external USB Zip drive (now
>> very inexpensive). Otherwise, look into an external mini hard drive --
>> surprisingly light and compact, with prices coming down fairly quickly.
>>
>> MaryL
>>
>>
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