Subj : Re: SD COMPUTER SOCIETY
To   : Tom Walker
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Tue Feb 01 2005 10:35 pm

-=> Tom Walker wrote to Roy Witt <=-


 -> and transferring everything via floppy...

 TW>  I don't want to think about the day of Transfering files with a box
 TW> full lof Floppies. I jumped into a parallel port Zip drive shortly
 TW> after they cane out and Never looked back!!  :-)  :-)
 TW>  I stil lhave that Parallel port Zip drive and a battery pack for it
 TW> but I din't expect it to ever be used again. I even had a program that
 TW> "Compressed" the files as it transfered them. And of course
 TW> "Uncompressed" while restoring. While that is nothing unusual this was
 TW> soem little program someone wrote up just for those using Zip Drives.

I actually used my parallel port Zip drive a few weeks ago to help a friend 
back up his user-data prior to formatting his system and reinstalling Windows 
from scratch... he could no longer boot to Windows to do a backup; the DOS 
drivers for the Zip worked fine (aside from nuking the long file names on his 
data files).

We backed up about 400 MB of the stuff that he really wanted to keep.

A little slow, but it worked fine.
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