Re: Zip vs. CD-RW (was: [DL] Please read if you have submitted anything recently)

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> Shane all I can say is ZIP DRIVE!!!
> Heck even CD-Burners are $200 or less.

Yes, but a *GOOD* burner will run you about $300 minimum (for a
Hewlett-Packard), but it's still worth it considering what you pay for the
respective media vs. how much the media cost.  A pack of 10 CD-RWs should
cost somewhere around $30 or $40, which, when formatted for direct access,
would provide about 5.3 *gigs* of storage, compared to the 300 or 400 *megs*
that paying the same amount for 100 meg Zip disks would provide (I don't
know how much the Zip 250s cost).

Nick "denouncing the devil Iomega in all its forms" Zachariasen

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