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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Coley who wrote (5781)	1/13/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: KM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

I think the bottom may be in folks. I bought at 7/16. Did you?

To: Michael Coley who wrote (5781)	1/16/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: Michael Coley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

RE: The Ubiquitous Zip! Here in Texas, there's a gardening magazine called "Neil Sperry's Gardens". The publisher mentions his new Zip Plus in his monthly editorial in the 1/99 magazine. Here's the relevant part: From the Sperry Garden Confessions of the humble gardener Nobody has ever accused me of being ahead of technology. Most of us, after all, chose horticulture because it moves at a more even, leisurely pace. Some call it glacial. We can dabble in the Internet and play with our computers without having to count on our brilliance to make the next paycheck. So that brings me to the point of today. I just spent 30 minutes backing up all the documents I have typed over the past 5 years, saving them to my new Zip drive. It's a "Zip-plus." Just a regular "Zip" wouldn't have done, I'm sure. I don't even know what I got with the "-plus." I'm sure it cost me more than just a plain "Zip," or a "Zip-minus." Anyway, I backed up 2,000 newspaper and magazine columns and one book of my 1,001 Most-Asked Texas Gardening Questions. I worked an entire and tough year on that book, and every bit of all of that text-columns, book and all-fit on 20 percent of one Zip disk. I called Brian, our higher-tech son who runs the magazine so very well. I wanted to muse over it all, and Brian put it all in perspective. He cited a friend whose son works in computers all day long. Bill's son, he said, enjoys gardening because he can see, smell and touch the results of his work. "In my profession I can put an entire career's effort on one disk and hold it in my hand," Bill said. - Michael Coley - wwol.com