re: Zip drives

[Stephen Shaw sshaw@xxxxxxxx]

To my knowledge the only Zip drives are 100MB and costs roughly $220. The
100MB cartridges cost about $15. I have been using one for 4 months (the
parallel port flavor). It is wonderful. In fact, the drive is sufficiently
compact that I carry around to the three sites on which I work.

Soon I will also be trying the Pinnacle recordable CD system (about $1000).

Steve Shaw

At 03:42 AM 3/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Otis:
>>Ah, but you *can* remove the hard-drive backup. There are several mountings
>>with removable HD frames that turn any half-height drive into a removable
>>cartridge. I have four backup drives, two containing duplicates of my data
>>base and other essentials, while the other two back up work docs and programs.
>>  The backup drives (1 gig, 850 meg, 500 meg, and 200 meg) were previously
>>my main drives. And my current 2.6-gigger will become a backup as soon as I
>>finish installing the 4-gig drive that arrived yesterday.
>Good point.
>>I don't use a backup program;
>>ascii and binary data is just copied to the removable drive, using an app
>>that looks at the date/time stamp and overwrites older files.
>Is there any advantage in this over using xcopy /e /m /s?
>
>Have you, or anyone else, used the "zip" drives that have 200 meg removable
>cartridges?
>
>Regards,
>Harry
>
>     Harry Binswanger
>      hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>