Re: Ditto Drive on Windows XP?
From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:29:58 -0400
And 3-4 years from now there will be no support for "vanilla" CD burning.
-- Regards: Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) " MS" <ms@nospam.com> wrote in message news:Ou0Bd09ZEHA.2892@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > > "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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