On 04-09-09, ROGER NELSON said to SEAN DENNIS:


RN>Cheapest I saw ZIP-100 discs was on the Internet at $7-9 each.  No one
RN>carries them locally anymore, so I bought a 4 Gig Flash drive for $19.95,
RN>plugged it into a USB port and after seeing how well it worked, I
RN>disconnected the ZIP drive.


I recently bought an 8 gigabyte drive that is smaller than a Bic lighter,
plugs into any of the two or three USB holes on the front of my tower, or in
the rear.


I transfered all my Fido stuff from my hard drives onto it, and when I
download .qwk packets from the two sources I use, they go directly to the
archive I'm keeping the current packets in.


It also has the convenience of being able to plug into my Dell laptop, and go
with me to other locations where I work, and I can download a packet early on
Saturday morning, unplug the drive and put it in my laptop case, and take it
to work with me. I've got all day to read the packet.


I also keep files related to my career field on it, so the next time a C:
drive wipes out on me, I don't have to go to such efforts to either recover
needed files, or re-create them.


Zip-100's? I didn't know they still made them!



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