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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008Zip Drives!
I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when four 100MB drives was a pretty comprehensive backup!  SignatureCheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk > I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives > that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when > four 100MB drives was a pretty comprehensive backup! Heh. My first Mac was an LC475 with an 80MB drive. When I got my Zip drive I could backup my entire hard drive onto a single disk. Probably the last time I could backup my boot drive onto a single item of removal media. Jim Signature'Cloverfield' in nine words: "What is it?!" "We're gonna die!" BOOM! Roll credits. Find me at http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk >> I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives >> that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Probably the last time I could backup my boot drive onto a single item > of removal media. I can still get my off-site backup onto a single (albeit dual layer) DVD. That's not the full drive though just the key stuff that I would need to get me going again. SignatureCheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk > >> I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives > >> that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > DVD. That's not the full drive though just the key stuff that I would > need to get me going again. In my case by the time I'd got around to getting writable optical media (and a drive for it) my hard drive was already bigger. I _liked_ Zip disks. I never suffered from Click of Death. Jim Signature'Cloverfield' in nine words: "What is it?!" "We're gonna die!" BOOM! Roll credits. Find me at http://www.ursaminorbeta.co.uk > > >> I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives > > >> that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Jim still got the wallstreets zip drive some where... never used it though i guess sara must of done. roger Signaturewww.rogermerriman.com > > I _liked_ Zip disks. I never suffered from Click of Death. > > > > Jim > > still got the wallstreets zip drive some where... never used it though i > guess sara must of done. I think mine got donated to a fellow Mac user a while ago. I've certainly not seen it for a few years now. Shame, as it's getting old enough to be part of the collection. Jim Signature"Well, well. We've come a long way from the Prime Minister's exploding cake." - Adam West, Batman. http://www.UrsaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK > > > I _liked_ Zip disks. I never suffered from Click of Death. > > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Jim your welcome to the drive and zips that may be around, might be a pizmo drive some where as well. roger Signaturewww.rogermerriman.com >> > > I _liked_ Zip disks. I never suffered from Click of Death. >> > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > your welcome to the drive and zips that may be around, might be a pizmo > drive some where as well. Nah. Thanks, but I'm not quite _that_ sad. Yet :-) Jim Signaturehttp://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Sometimes when I talk to a Windows person about using a Mac, I feel like I'm explaining Van Halen to a horse." Merlin Mann > >> > > I _liked_ Zip disks. I never suffered from Click of Death. > >> > > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Jim heh! roger Signaturewww.rogermerriman.com > > >> I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives > > >> that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > I _liked_ Zip disks. I never suffered from Click of Death. I liked them too, and never had the click, but having observed it close up on my friends zip drive, it made me more reluctant to trust it. Especially the occasions when you got an odd click. Only sold mine a few years back (at £40 - was suprised it was still worth something) SignatureWoody www.alienrat.com > > > >> I was checking and clearing some old Windows files off the Zip drives > > > >> that I used to use for backup in the old days. Those were the days when [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Only sold mine a few years back (at £40 - was suprised it was still > worth something) I was given one by a friend a few months ago and it promptly hit the forgotten drawer until it became very useful when my flatmate produced a number of old Zip disks and asked me whether I had a way of putting the files therein into her current Mac. 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