Kristen and I have been spending most of the day cleaning house and gather up lots of things we never use to give away. I came across my old iomega Zip 100 drive I got when I was yearbook editor senior year of high school. It was really handy for about 2 years... and then came the flash drive. I've kept the Zip drive and disks for 9 years now and decided to plug it in and format the disks so I can give them away. This external Zip drive uses the Parallel port to connect to the computer... and my 2002 Dell PC didn't/wouldn't recognize it.
So I thought to myself... "I'll just go download the drivers..."
Not so much. It seems that iomega was bought earlier this month and for some reason their site is down.
So much for that fad.
1 comments:
I once had a co-worker of mine make a case for using 5.25" floppies for storing sensitive information. He said that since you couldn't buy a drive to read those old disks anymore, if you stored a file on it the likelihood of some unauthorized person being able to read it was pretty low. Of course, this is security through obscurity and there are much better solutions using encryption (see http://truecrypt.org), but I suppose that you could make the same case for these Zip disks.
Btw, I have a parallel port 100 MB Zip drive and a 5.25" floppy drive with a bag full of disks in the cabinet to my left right now.
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