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To: s. bateh who wrote (6083)	1/18/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: Linda Pearson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Pros and cons of removable storage drives ohio.com ON COMPUTERS Data-storage revolution among century's great advances washtimes.com <Many of us have a removable cartridge drive, such as a Zip or Jaz from Iomega, installed as standard equipment on our PCs and Macs. Perhaps the most impressive area of data storage in recent years has been the advent of recordable and rewritable CD-ROM discs. While capacity tends to max out at around 650 megabytes, the CDs are easier to carry, duplicate and distribute than removable media, and can be read by most CD-ROM drives around today. One group I know put the better part of 30 years' worth of publications, newsletters, books and other materials produced by one organization onto five CD-ROMs. If printed and shipped on paper, the volume would be immense. All this came to mind the other day as I finished a project that involved more than 32,000 words and nearly 130 pages. Making an electronic copy of the files seemed prudent, to say the least. It was even more so when, to celebrate, I went to see a movie, one scene of which saw a writer's only copy of a novel tossed into New York Harbor, page by page, by a jilted lover. Hadn't the fool ever heard of a Zip drive?> Ken, I guess there are many people who are into "luxury" items these days. Give me a B R E A K. Linda