[G4] Zip Drives any good?

[nagable at comcast.net]

My two cents, for what it's worth.

I have an external USB Zip drive, and as the editor of a Mac User Group newsletter, it comes in quite handy.  It's like a large but very fast floppy drive.  It saves quickly and drive and disks are portable, and it's quite durable, about 4 years old, and still cranking.  I don't use it a lot; just once a month for about 6 or so hours.  But it's handy; quicker than burning a CD, and the disks can be reformatted.  This drive as the 100MB capacity drive.
But then I'm an old guy and I hate to part with old stuff.

Nate
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tim Collier <collierof1957 at mac.com>
> 
> On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:53 AM, Kevin Brocker wrote:
> 
> > I guess I'll forget about getting a zip, or using them
> > for that matter.
> >
> > Thanks
> I agree with all of the other posters.  I never really had experience  
> with a zip drive until I bought an older Blue & White G3.  One of the  
> first things I bought for it was a CD-RW, DVD RW drive (cheap) and it  
> works like a charm.  I have other Macs:  G4 iBook (the one I'm using  
> now), a dual 2 gig G5 and a dual 1 gig G4 (the G4 has the space [like  
> you described] for the zip drive but none is installed).  I started  
> using Macs back in 2001, switching from PC.  So anyway, none of them  
> can communicate using a zip drive.  The one in the G3 gets very  
> little use.  I am waiting for a 6500 (Monday) which will also have a  
> zip drive.  We'll see how useful it is in regard to data copied on a  
> zip drive.  But anyway, it's an outdated technology.  CD's and DVD's  
> can be recorded in minutes, sometimes less like on a CD-RW and you're  
> copying just a few files, it takes seconds.  Of course having all of  
> your Macs networked is the ultimate solution and I've done that so  
> files fly around the house in cyberspace.  Just my thought and  
> comments....zip drive is a novelty, now, nice to have and look at,  
> but of no real value.
> 
> Tim
> Exterminate all rational thought.
> 
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