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purple hayes
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 Posted: 11/15/02 - 12:54 Post subject: Excuse me, could you play this 8-track for me?
Somebody just brought a zip disk into my office and wanted to know if we had anyway to open the files on it.
 You're kidding me right? That's the computer equiv. of an 8-track. Nobody uses zip disks any more. CD-ROMS are way cheaper and easier to work with.
So someone in our office goes next door and asks them if they can open the files and they send him back over to me with a SCSI Zip drive.
Who still uses SCSI equipment? Not I.
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copteacher
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 13:01 Post subject:
our computer records are backed up once a week on scsi i think
otherwise i have not even seen them in a long time
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Sahara
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 13:02 Post subject:
We have zip drives floating around at work but I don't think anyone uses them anymore. I used to back up my harddrive to one everyother week.
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TriBob
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 13:35 Post subject:
PH, can you convert my 5 1/4, 360 kb floppies to CD-ROM?
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purple hayes
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 14:47 Post subject:
| TriBob wrote: | | PH, can you convert my 5 1/4, 360 kb floppies to CD-ROM? |
HA! I just found a B: drive in the office the other day.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 14:54 Post subject:
I've got a floppy drive if you've got a disk.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 15:01 Post subject:
| Laurie Ellen wrote: | | I've got a floppy drive if you've got a disk. |
 not gonna go there..... 
PH, my dad, family computer geek has a SCSI drive. And all my taxes of all time are stored safely on a zip disk.
safe because no one else can get to it....
Hey, so who's got some Commodore 64 games?? tooth invaders anyone?? 
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Cappy
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 15:11 Post subject: Re: Excuse me, could you play this 8-track for me?
| purple hayes wrote: | Somebody just brought a zip disk into my office and wanted to know if we had anyway to open the files on it.
You're kidding me right? That's the computer equiv. of an 8-track. Nobody uses zip disks any more. CD-ROMS are way cheaper and easier to work with.
So someone in our office goes next door and asks them if they can open the files and they send him back over to me with a SCSI Zip drive.
Who still uses SCSI equipment? Not I. |
You work at a Company that uses a Wang computer from 1985
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shelflifers
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 18:32 Post subject:
Every important thing I did in college is on one zip. Looks like I'm screwed if I ever need it as a reference
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purple hayes
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 18:56 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | Every important thing I did in college is on one zip. Looks like I'm screwed if I ever need it as a reference |
You mean the drunken party photos?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 18:57 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | Every important thing I did in college is on one zip. Looks like I'm screwed if I ever need it as a reference |
You mean the drunken party photos? |
I was young, I needed the money.
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akern
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 19:06 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | Every important thing I did in college is on one zip. Looks like I'm screwed if I ever need it as a reference |
You mean the drunken party photos? |
I was young, I needed the money. |
They paid you to leave right?
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kristin31
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Posted: 11/15/02 - 19:09 Post subject:
We have one person here (in our department) who will not stop using a zip drive. I am waiting on aproval from out technical standards board to get him one. Add this to the fact that he has a CDRW and doesn't need one, plus with XP and the network he also doesn't need one, even from home as he has Roadrunner (our cable modem service). Very annoying. And try explaining this to him AND the TSB, who basically scoffed at me. Grrrrrrr........
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