[Coco] 100 NB ZIP Drives

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/24/05 4:56:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
zmerch at 30below.com writes:

>They  went from 250Meg to 750Meg a year or two ago...
I missed that, but at least Zip is still alive and kicking (the recent  
Iomega ads I've seen are for other types of devices).  I had been  considering 
getting a USB 250M ZIP external drive, or even an internal IDE  model, but 
probably won't bother, unless someone blows them out really  cheap.

>>I also noticed that after I "upgraded" my Norton Utilities, the  Rescue
>>function no longer supports making a ZIP disk backup.   So Norton must 
>>have  written off ZIP too.
>That's because it would take so many to do a "normal" backup of  most 
>people's desktops, they're not worth  it...



The Norton Rescue doesn't try to backup all your dat or apps, just enough  to 
restore your OS and Registry to its previous state.  Well, maybe it did  
backup apps.  I don't recall that my "upgrade" has a CD-R option, though  maybe it 
does.
--Mike K.