02-13-20 22:40 Benny Pedersen wrote to Maurice Kinal about life ?
Howdy! Benny,

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 BP> Hello Maurice!

 BP> 30 Jan 2020 22:41, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:
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 MK>  Also I haven't messed with tape drives since the early
 MK> 1990's and did have access to external scsi exabyte drives but mostly
 MK> worked with ye olde 9 track tapes.

 BP> i got a sysquest drive, looked like it was a new 8" floppy disk in
 BP> cartridge design :)

In the late 1970's or 1980's, a Ham Radio Friend who started out using
a Apple ][ later got a IBM PC (Compatiablle ???), and told Me
(on Packet Radio) that He was using a SyQuest Removable Disk Drive.

I asked him to let me come over and see what that Drive looked like.

He showed me the Cartridge for His SyQuest Drive, it had a Metal Platter
instead of Flexible Media like the Iomega Bernoulli Cartridges had inside
their Cartridges at that time.

The SyQuest Cartridge He showed Me held 44 MB and was the same size as a
360 KB Floppy Disk (5.25 Inch), and told me the US Air Force had bought
a lot of those Drives to use on their computers.

I think His Drive connected to the pc with a SCSI Cable.

When Iomega started advertising the ZIP100 Removable Cartridge Drive, I
saw an article in Popular Electronics or Radio-Electronics Magazine
that said the Zip100 Drive used flexible media in its  Cartridge.

Around that time I had also read that SyQuest was designing a Drive with a
135 MB Removable Cartridge.

Iomega started selling the ZIP100 long before SyQuest had began selling
their EZ135, but I waited because I wanted to make MY Back-Ups on Metal
Platters instead of Flexible Plastic media.

A couple of people at the Church I attend talked to me about how they
enjoyed using their ZIP100 Drive and I told them I didn't want to Save to
Floppies, I wanted to Save my stuff to Metal Platters like was used in the
Hard Drives inside of computers, so I'd rather wait until SyQuest started
selling their new model (of course I told them Metal is Better than Plastic).

When SyQuest started selling their EZ135 I bought one as soon as I could.
I wanted to use it to make Back-Ups of the 2 HDD's in my 486 instead of using
a bunch of 1.44 MB 3.5 Inch Floppy Disks anymore.

 MK>  I'll stick with sata drives for
 MK> now since they are way cheaper than tape.

As for Me and this XP pc I like SATA Drives.
The 250 GB SATA HDD in this XP computer was just about full so I replaced it
with a 2 TB SATA HDD.

I bought a Tripp-Lite U238-000-1 USB 2.0 to SATA / IDE Adapter to make
Back-Up's for my XP pc on to a Internal SATA Hard Drive instead of to the
External USB HDD's I used earlier to make Back-Up's for the XP.

[* Pause for a second thought *]

Some years later I saw another Tripp-Lite product to plug Internal SATA HDD's
in to that had a cover for the Drive instead of everything being out in the
open ( 'jury rigged' ) like the model I had did.

It wss Tripp-Lite's Model Number U339-001-FLAT USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive
Lay-Flat Quick Dock Enclosure for 3.5 Inch HDD and SSD.

It was ON SALE so I called the Company about buying Two of them
(for the Two Drives I use to Back Up to) and the Total Price quoted to me
was SKY HIGH, so I asked the salesman and was told the Cost for Shipping
was higher for that item.
I told the Man I thought the Shipping Charge was way too high for a small
thing like that and didn't order to Two I wanter to get.

I called Tripp-Lite and learned how much one of them weighted and Emailed
that information to the Salesman but He wouldn't  change the Cost for
Shipping, so I told Him I wouldn't pay that much for those Back Up boxes.

I then tried to look to see what other Companies had the Price for that
item and saw a much higher selling price for that thing everywhere else.

The Company still has them for sale but af a Higher Price than what Their
"Sale Price" was.

[* Back to my orginal topic *]

I have Two 2 TB SATA External HDD's that I alternate putting Back-Up's on.

After several years of use those Two Drives were getting full [ I've kept all
of the Back-Up's I've made ;-)  ].

I saw a 4 TB External USB HDD for sale at a very good price and tried to use
it for the XP pc but it wasn't recognized so I tried it on the Vista pc and
learned it could be used on that pc.

(I've wondered if before I started using it on the Vista pc if I had made
2  Partitions on that 4 TB Drive - if XP would had been able to "SEE" it?

I "think" so, but there is too much data on that 4 TB'er now for me to try
Partitoning it.

73 de Ed W9ODR

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