Re: Iomega disk drive

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:49:18 +0000 (UTC), "Mark Williams"
<mark.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>"Mudge" <Mudge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:10281644.XDUOVTUD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> On 10/28/2005 14:10:01 Penny wrote:
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>>> This sounds quite probable to me, I had enough prombles persuading Win
>>> 2000 that my Zip drive was there but, you may gather, I do have such a
>>> device and may be able to help if Nick's suggestion doesn't.
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>> Are those things still available in the UK - my old Zip drive went
>> "Poof" a few months ago and I had to order one special from Iomega as
>> none of the Computer stores here even stock them (or the disks) anymore
>> - much like the old 3.5" floppies (to say nowt of the 5" ones)
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>5" floppies. Pah! That's nothing. I've got some 8" floppys somewhere with
>ohh, probably kilobytes of assembler code on them.
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Yes, but can you access the data?

I've got 5.25" floppies and working machines that use them. And when ntl finally
get around to adding uk.comp.vintage to its news server I can bore even more
people to death by talking abut them.

Nick O

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