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From: Peter McPhie
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00

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I had two bad experiences with my Zip drive.

(i) First I installed it under NWDOS 7.0 Both of my floppy drives went 
dead in the water, as soon as the Guest program ran. Since I didn't want 
to waste $200, I had to retreat to MSDOS-land.

(ii) You get a free 100 Mb disk with the software on it. After all my 
installation sessions, I found it held 25 Mb of programs and 25 Mb of 
free space. (25+25=100. Whats the base of this numbering system?) 
It took a lot of work to figure out that the installation 
program never deleted an "invisible" 50 Mb folder, full of MacIntosh 
stuff. You get a mystery program called "Reclaim", that's supposed to do 
this, but none of this is in the manual. The company sent me a replacement 
disk, which worked fine.

	After all that its great. I keep all my DOS programs on Zip 
disks and keep my small hard drive for Windoze.

				Peter McPhie

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From: Peter McPhie <pmcphie@helix.nih.gov>
Subject: Re: IOMEGA Zip 
Date: 1996/04/09
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