removing the article about zip drives

Frank Leonhardt freebsd-doc at fjl.co.uk
Wed Oct 31 12:39:19 UTC 2012


On 31/10/2012 01:46, Eitan Adler wrote:
> I'd like to remove
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/index.html
>
> - it is old

True - doesn't mention USB version, and comments in the introduction are 
dated (100Mb isn't exactly high capacity any longer).

> and crufty
> - some instructions are now wrong

Pity

> - no one uses ZIP drives anymore

Not so! Not often, but there is data on Zip cartridges out there, the 
same as there is on floppy disks. I come across them about once a year, 
but I'm nerdy like that.

Whilst the article in question could benefit from an update, its the 
best there is. I wonder if 64-bit Windows is capable of working with 
some Zip drives any longer. This is another good reason to use FreeBSD.

I have a collection of pretty much every Zip drive ever made (and some 
still work!); I could try out the instructions and see what still works.

Regards, Frank.



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