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[Cameron Kaiser]

> > I must have been the only person on earth who had no dud cartridges or
> > click of death, and I used ZIP drives a lot for sneakernetting.
> 
> I think part of the bad reputation of Zips and Jaz's stemmed from people
> using them for storage, rather than transfer.

I'll buy that. For me, as it sounds like for you, the ZIP was just a big
floppy, with all the attendant disadvantages. But transfer was much nicer
when I didn't have a big pipe between point A and point B (like, for example,
the printer).

I wouldn't use a floppy for backup either.

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