dencorso Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 13 hours ago, Dibya said: nt 4.0 from floppy drive? 9 hours ago, jaclaz said: Not really a "floppy". Well, you could have used an LS-120, and that'd be even nearer to a floppy, right? (One can run floppies from a superdisk drive...). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 23 minutes ago, dencorso said: Well, you could have used an LS-120, and that'd be even nearer to a floppy, right? (One can run floppies from a superdisk drive...). Oww, come on. What do you think I could have used in 1995-1997? Quick timetable: Windows 3.11 = 1993 Zip disk=1994 Windows 95=1995 NT4.0=1996 Superdisk=1997 (and for whatever reason didn't really come to Italy before late 1998 or so, and they were very expensive, whilst Zip disks were common, relatively cheap and - I believe the SCSI ones at least, the parallel port ones were slow as molasses - much, much faster than superdisks) Both however soon became obsolete by 1999 or so, replaced by CDRW's, though I have used IDE/ATAPI ZIP disks up to 2004 or 2005, as they were just perfect as removable backup solution for a specific setup I had (DOS based) that used between 70 and 90 Mb of data. JFYI: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/showthread.php?42546-Zip-vs-Superdisk-(LS-120) jaclaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I know. I still have two Zip100s and a Zip250 (all IDE) sitting on a shelf right beside me here. But LS-120s look more like floppies and can actually read and write common floppies... that's what I was thinking about: looks, not actual reliability. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibya Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Old is Gold ! Nothing to say . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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