The Eighth Doctor wrote:
> In article <37es0jF5d0i0rU1@individual.net>, HuMJohn@aeroSurf.net says...
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>>The Eighth Doctor wrote:
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>>>Hello from the Eighth Doctor
>>>I have two computers here. One is a Dell, he sometimes has Zipslack installed.
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> The
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>>>other is a no-name brand. He has now, version 10.1 of Slackware installed
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> natively.
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>>>When I've got Zipslack installed and running perfectly, I attempt to view the
>>>contents of a Zip 100 disk while running Linux. That disk would be a FAT16
>>>formatted one. It would then cause a glitch while using mtools to view, or
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> otherwise
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>>>manipulate the contents. However, on the other one, and with the exact same
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> type of
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>>>drive installed on it, this didn't happen. I am now bringing over files from a
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> bundle
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>>>of disks. Comments, please?
>>>---
>>>Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
>>>"This signature is invalid, please reset."
>>>
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>>IIRC, the earlier (IDE) Zip drives did not act or react like the later
>>Zips did. IOMega used to provide special drivers for Windows, to access
>>(read/write) the earlier drives.
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> Could be... But I don't think so. What time period are you thinking of? I got the Dell
> in March of 1999. And the Zip Drive about a month or two later. The one that the
> current Slacker is wearing is from the same time period.
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I am thinking the era from '98 to about 2000. After 2000, the Zip drives
no longer needed Win drivers for them (I mean the same version of
Windows that the other drives required OEM drivers for them to work). I
can not get any closer in a time frame than that.

I would guess the drives change right about the 250 Meg drives started
to come down in price to the range of decently affordable. :-) And the
100Meg drives just stayed around the same price range as previous.


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