 |
 |
I just purchased an Iomega 100m USB zip drive for my G4!
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
i just purchased a 100m usb zip drive.
it's for my mac g4 running 10.2.8.
i purchased it from ebay and it says it's mac/pc compatible.
my question is... what do i have to look forward to.
will it work if i upgrade to panther?
thanks. Dock the pipe. 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
Status:
Offline
|
|
mine works fine with 10.3.3 and has never given me any problems since I got it 2 years ago.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: My Powerbook, in Japan!
Status:
Offline
|
|
The better question is why would you buy one? I'd think most people today would have rejected Zip Drives a while ago, in favor of cheaper and universally accepted CDs.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Sar Chasm
Status:
Offline
|
|
Depends what you do. I still have clients walk through the door with Zips (and even floppies) 2 or 3 times a month. I haven't personally used one for backup/transfer in a couple of years, but I still need the drive once in a while.
CV
|
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
It's amazing how quickly the Zip Disk fell out of fashion. One day they were very popular and often-used. The next day we had USB flash drives for sneaker-net and CD burners for longer term, larger file storage.
Zips can still be used for personal backups of smaller files and since they're re-writeable, unlike CDRs, they can be more convenient for such use.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Switzerland
Status:
Offline
|
|
The drive will be supported for some time yet.
Thinking about it. I haven't used a Zip for years... when I worked in graphics a few years ago, they were the storage medium of choice! I was drowning in them!
How the mighty have fallen indeed. Iomega must be on borrowed time...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
Status:
Offline
|
|
I use CD's and DVD's for backup but when I need to transfer files from my MDD to my Beige G3 to my 7100 the only thing they have in common thats fast and easy is zip disks.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Hanging on the wall at Jabba's Palace
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
"Laugh it up, fuzz ball!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Why do you care?
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Welcome to 1997
|
|
27" 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 iMac
13" Late-2010 MacBookAir
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Hanging on the wall at Jabba's Palace
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
The drive will be supported for some time yet.
Thinking about it. I haven't used a Zip for years... when I worked in graphics a few years ago, they were the storage medium of choice! I was drowning in them!
How the mighty have fallen indeed. Iomega must be on borrowed time...
Ya the 100 were popular, I know about 2 people with a 250 drive, I don't know a soul on earth that got that stupid 700 meg drive, that couldn't even write to 100 meg disks.
Just about nobody I know uses Zips anymore as they don't want to send a small file on a $20 disk and have to worry about getting it back. Everyone just sends files on a $.30 CD-R that holds 7x more and doesn't care if they get it back.
Zips are dead. Anyone want to buy the 20 disks I have laying around?
|
"Laugh it up, fuzz ball!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'd give it about a week before it breaks.
|
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Hanging on the wall at Jabba's Palace
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by olePigeon:
I'd give it about a week before it breaks.
I give him 3 days before he realize he has no use for it.
|
"Laugh it up, fuzz ball!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
