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Article #197Re: Zip Demand - Mac vs PC?
From: Mike Muise
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 00:00
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Daniel Whicker (heimdall@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: The catch is that only works if all systems involved have Zips.
: Fortunately for me, the computer lab at school I use will have a Zip
: drive on every machine (The people in charge are obsessed with state of
: the art, which I have no problems with *grin*).
You are fortunate. The machines here take their design cues from cactii
and pay-telephones: invulnerability above all else. Essentially, if it
isn't built like a tank and can't be secured to the desk with 1/2" bolts,
forget it. You only have to imagine a couple hundred lusers shoving
their 1.44meg floppies into the Zip drive ("tee-hee! the drive is *blue*!")
to get the picture.
Oh well. Maybe the advent of an internal version will change this.
:
cheers,
mike
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