Re: Ditto Drive on Windows XP?

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From: MS (ms_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:53:32 -0700

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OcyaMeoZEHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> They stop supporting hardware because technologies change. Why waste time,
> effort and money.

Why??? That isn't obvious?? They made millions of dollars selling Ditto
drives and tapes, I think they have some responsibility to the users they
sold them to.

True--technologies change. As most people have CD burners now, many have DVD
burners, many have large external hard drives (I have all three), not many
people now probably want to use those tape drives as a backup medium. I
certainly don't.

HOWEVER----millions of people probably have those Ditto tapes lying around,
with data they backed up previously. (Just a few years ago, really not long
ago, that was one of the most popular backup devices.) In backing up to
those tapes, I'm sure they were under the impression that they could restore
that data when desired.

Probably the majority of Windows users have upgraded to XP by now, and most
of those do not any more have any access to a 95, 98, or ME machine. I'm
sure there must be many people in the same predicament as I--who wish to
restore a file or files from a Ditto tape, and cannot due to the lack of
support from Iomega.

YES--regardless of technological change, regardless of the fact that they
are no longer making money by selling that drive, I think a company has some
responsibility to the users they sold a product to.

I for one, will never buy an Iomega product again.

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