Thought I'd better contribute something about IOM here.
Any of the rest of you gotten your Zip drive from Surplus Direct yet? Mine (for my home machine, now I've got one on each box I work with anywhere) came yesterday. With excitement, I tore open the box, and found:
A Zip drive
A ribbon cable.
Well, crap, I thought immediately. No installation floppy, no Zip Tools disk, no 1-page "Quick Start" flyer, no faceplate, just a bunch of styrofoam peanuts and catalog of SD specials. But, being the kind of guy I am, I tore open the wrapper, tore open the computer (Cyrix 6x86L-PR200+ box, Win95), found a power connector and ribbon cable, plugged the Zip in, held my breath, and turned it on. Chunk, chunk, chunk, and lo and behold, there it is: Removable Disk (E:)!
I don't care what anyone says, somebody did it right, no software installation at all, just another drive waiting to be used (and I had brought about 50 MB of stuff from work to put on it). So it isn't ATAPI, even after reading what Dale pointed me to in e-mail and on this board (thank you, Dale, I apologize for not doing so sooner), I don't know how it could be easier or a lot faster. Especially for $71.88!
Cameron
"In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated." |
