I may actually still have a parallel port and an IDE/ATAPI Zip Drives around here. Or I might have tossed them five or six years ago, can't remember for sure. I used to have an IDE/ATAPI LS-120 SuperDrive but I definitely remember tossing that.I still have a working USB zip drive. It's not plugged into anything though.
Like the early "tall box" Playstation games?
I remember when CD's used to come in those tall cardboard boxes.
I may actually still have a parallel port and an IDE/ATAPI Zip Drives around here. Or I might have tossed them five or six years ago, can't remember for sure. I used to have an IDE/ATAPI LS-120 SuperDrive but I definitely remember tossing that.
You can relive the experience with BD-RE 100GB.
How the heck did they get away with advertising CD players in baja racers? I imagine there was no anti-skip protection back in those days, which would make driving down a bumpy road impossible to listen to discs.
I may actually still have a parallel port and an IDE/ATAPI Zip Drives around here. Or I might have tossed them five or six years ago, can't remember for sure. I used to have an IDE/ATAPI LS-120 SuperDrive but I definitely remember tossing that.
100GB are $10 each in quantity of five.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=BD-RE+XL
Yeah, it's slow and not really cheap but it is device independent and subject to different hazards so good for redundant backup.
Or in this case (as posted elsewhere), for cold storage:
http://arstechnica.com/information-...lu-ray-discs-are-perfect-for-the-data-center/
"...this is one of those areas where really high-capacity Blu-ray discs are in relatively low demand on the consumer side and in relatively high demand on the data center side."
Also, from 650MB in 1990 up to 1TB "'soon":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc