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Posted by Tony on 11/12/06 21:47
>Even in its day, who the hell used 100 MB zip disks when almost every other
>medium was larger. By the time Zip's came out, we already had rewriteable CDRW
>at 650MB
Are you kidding? In 1995, I bought a Zip Drive for $199 or so. The 100MB discs were $15. That was a
great alternative to expensive hard disks. The first 1GB drives were $1000! In 1996, I bought my
first CD-R drive and it cost me $600 and blanks were $10 each, which turned into coasters real fast
after the slightest hiccup from the computer. ZIPS were a great medium to use during the transition
from expensive hard drives to affordable CDRom Drives. Heck, in 2000 I purchased a 10x HP CD RW
Writer for $200 and that was a DEAL!
You may be getting your years mixed up.
Tony
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