Subj : SD COMPUTER SOCIETY
To   : Tom Walker
From : Roy Witt
Date : Wed Feb 02 2005 03:29 pm

Hello Tom.

01 Feb 05 08:35, you wrote to me:

 TW> ->  TW>  I picked up one of those about a year ago. this was the
 TW> litle one ->  TW> with built in Cables. REALLY works great for
 TW> transfering from one ->  TW> computer to another using Aloh Bobs PC
 TW> relocator.. I have also used ->  TW> it for setting two computers
 TW> side by dide and transfering Data via a ->  TW> USB bridge Cable.
 TW> Sure beat the old way of having Two ->  TW> Keyboards/Mice/Monitors
 TW> set up on the workbench.

 TW> -> 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!!  :-)  :-)

I have one of those, but I hardly use it anymore.

 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
 TW> that "Compressed" the files as it transfered them. And of course
 TW> "Uncompressed" while restoring. While that is nothing unusual
 TW> this was soem little program someone wrote up just for those using
 TW> Zip Drives.

I think I've got 5 100meg disks full of Fidonet stuff. That and I've been
compiling Fidonet stuff under a 4COPY2CD folder with plenty of sub-folders
to sort out what is what. I may have enough to fill a 650gig CD one of
these days.


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