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  • Zip it. Zip it Good!

    From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Denn on Tue Jan 20 11:51:05 2026
    Re: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run
    By: Denn to Nightfox on Sun Jan 18 2026 17:11:06

    I had an Iomege zip drive that could handle 250 mb disk's...
    I think they had 100MB, 250MB, and 750MD disks.

    So you /think/ there was a 250mb drive, even though you actually /had/ one? Uh-huh.

    Anyway, yeah, there were 100mb as well; I had one of those, still got a few disks. There was also the Jaz which came in one and two gig versions. They had a few other storage devices over the years, but these were the most popular.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Mortar on Tue Jan 20 22:51:47 2026
    Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
    By: Mortar to Denn on Tue Jan 20 2026 11:51 am

    I had an Iomege zip drive that could handle 250 mb disk's...
    I think they had 100MB, 250MB, and 750MD disks.

    So you /think/ there was a 250mb drive, even though you actually /had/ one? Uh-huh.

    Yep I had mostly 100MB disk's but I did have a couple of 250mb disks as well. Iomega had a manufacturing facility a few miles north of where I live.

    Denn

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Thu Jan 22 11:30:29 2026
    Mortar wrote to Denn <=-

    Anyway, yeah, there were 100mb as well; I had one of those, still got a few disks. There was also the Jaz which came in one and two gig
    versions. They had a few other storage devices over the years, but
    these were the most popular.

    Back in the 68K Macintosh days, you'd have geek cred based on how tall
    your external SCSI tower was - you had to have a ZIP drive, maybe a Jaz
    drive, the Apple CD ROM, maybe an external HD... I hated SCSI conflicts
    - having to swap the order of drives to see if one of them decided to
    terminate the chain...

    I had a IIci, external 2GB drive and a DDS tape drive. I wasn't one of
    the cool kids.



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 22 15:50:55 2026
    Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu Jan 22 2026 11:30 am

    but these were the most popular.

    Back in the 68K Macintosh days, you'd have geek cred based on how
    tall your external SCSI tower was - you had to have a ZIP drive,
    maybe a Jaz drive, the Apple CD ROM, maybe an external HD... I hated
    SCSI conflicts - having to swap the order of drives to see if one of
    them decided to terminate the chain...


    you set them correctly and you wont have that problem.

    i had a ton of scsi drives around 97+
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