Wow. I totally had blocked those out of my memory.
I deployed a batch of desktops to an office with the drives and 1 disk each. We hoarded the disks of course.
I think I mostly just fidgeted with them at my desk since we just had a few machines that could use them.
They were more reliable than our external SATA CD burner (Smart & Friendly brand), though. That had its own table we wouldn’t touch while burning at 1x. It could 2x but the failure rate was too high and CDRs were still expensive. Zip drives were for peasants being mostly parallel or IDE. :)
I deployed a batch of desktops to an office with the drives and 1 disk each. We hoarded the disks of course.
I think I mostly just fidgeted with them at my desk since we just had a few machines that could use them.
They were more reliable than our external SATA CD burner (Smart & Friendly brand), though. That had its own table we wouldn’t touch while burning at 1x. It could 2x but the failure rate was too high and CDRs were still expensive. Zip drives were for peasants being mostly parallel or IDE. :)