ZIP and Other Hard Drives |
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| by Ted Peterson |
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| 6/1/00. |
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| Because of memory requirements of programs, pictures and files a 3.5" floppy does not have enough space to do some work needed. |
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| A 3.5" floppy can hold only a little over 1.44 meg. A good 35mm color picture will take from 5 to 30 megs of memory depending on the program and the needed use.. As you can see you would need from 8-30 floppies so would not work. |
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| There are 3 different ways to store a larger amount of data. They are: Hard drives, CD recorders, and Zip drives. CD recorders will be in another article. |
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| A Zip drive is a 100 - 250 meg removable recorder hard drive.(depending on model) They are made by Iamega and comes in four models. One model plugs into your computer printer port and then your printer plugs into the back of your Zip drive. The 2nd one is one that plugs into your Scsi port. Third one will work both by connecting to the printer port or into the Scusi port but will cost about $80.00 more. And the fourth one plug into the USB port. |
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| If you are using Windows 3.1 the one that plug into your printer port will make you reload the program each time you turn on your computer. |
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| Also, in most of the PCs, if you have scsi devices on your computer and you have the printer port Zip turned on you will NOT be able to use the scsi devices. If you can pick up the scsi drive and use it, so much better. The Scsi Zip drive will work as fast as your regular hard drive and you can keep it on all the time. You have to turn on your Zip first before you turn on your computer on all models |
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| The Zip drive will use disk about the same size as a 3.5" floppy but about 2 times thicker. The cost is about $10.00 each (for the 100 megs) or $25.00 (for the 230 megs)and will hold 100 meg or 250 megs of memory. The drives will cost about $130.00 to $200.00 |
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| For help, you will not get an answer on the phone and if you write to Iomega you will get a form letter saying to contact them on their web page or by e-mail only. You connot get through to them on the phone. |
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| ALL PC users need a Zip drive. Both as a way to save a lot of memory, to store pictures or if you are working in a place that other people can get to your computer when you are not there, you can do your work on a Zip and then take the disk with you, or lock it up until needed. |
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| New hard drive can be used if you need more memory. All PC are made so that they can have 2 different hard drives with as large a number of partitions as needed. The price has came down (you can get a 60 gig drive for $99.00). You can then place this new drive in with your main drive therefor 2 different hard drives. I have picked up a 60 gig drive and then set it up as 2 different 30 gigs drives. You can also pick up a different hard drive to use on your Scsi. They work a lot faster. |
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