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Reply #15 - Mar 14^th, 2005 at 10:11pm

Triple_7 Ex Member

lol...the not so trusty floppy disk.....many of times in the old school did i loose my work to those blasted things....

Now i go for a trusty zip disk. We started using them at vocational and eventualy i bought on for home use. No more floppies Grin

Though if it wasnt for the zip disks ide be done for. Most of my work is well over 1.44 megs...just finished a contest peice today that was over 40 megs Shocked

But dont be fooled...though its not as easy to do it is possible to corrupt a zip and loose much more work then on a floppy...Teacher managed to corrupt one of mine..Reformated it before i had a chance to do anything and lost a ton of my work that i never again will see Angry

But IMHO i think every computer should come standard with a zip drive and not that pethetic floppy Tongue

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Reply #16 - Mar 15^th, 2005 at 2:16pm

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I just use an 80 gig drive like a floppy, having become very adept at ripping off side covers and installing my HDD before the poor owner of the PC can say, "What about my warranty?"

Never, EVER let me within 50 ft of your PC! Grin

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Reply #17 - Mar 15^th, 2005 at 3:48pm

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*takes mental note*

OK, I now have a restraining order against you!

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Reply #18 - Mar 16^th, 2005 at 12:54am

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Best ways to transfer files(in order for abolsute best to somewhat better):
-Network (Prefrably Gigabit or Tera bit) I prefer the latter
-portable HD's with SATA support
-Iomega zip drives (750 mb)
-DVD and CD (i prefer the former, more space)
-USB sticks

Worst ways to transfer files (from bad to worst):
-Infrared Connections
-Serial/parallel port Connections
-Tape drives
-Floppies
-Copying the source code one digit at a time (thats how the exported PGP out of the US) from one computer to the next via keyboard

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Reply #19 - Mar 17^th, 2005 at 7:24am

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I personally have found USB "pen drives" to be more reliable than ZIP disks, not really because of the media, but because ZIP drives themselves have proven (at least in my working experience) to be not completely reliable.

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Reply #20 - Mar 17^th, 2005 at 12:15pm

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Disk stuff that i have
Drives
Zip-100
Zip-250
LS-120
a load of plain 3 1/2"

I don't have disks for the LS-120, but it reads normal disks and it was 2 euros cheaper compared to a 3 1/2" drive

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Reply #21 - Mar 17^th, 2005 at 1:19pm

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hehehe, we've got the LS-120 still in one of the computers at home... Wink

never use it though since most other computers don't have the ls-120 drive.. Wink

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Reply #22 - Mar 17^th, 2005 at 2:05pm

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LS-120 with the fantastic head servo whine at startup

Russian planes: IL-76 (all standard length ones), Tu-154 and Il-62, Tu-134 and An-24RV&&&&AI flightplans and repaints can be found here

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Reply #23 - Mar 17^th, 2005 at 2:59pm

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Yeah,well I seem to have gone an lost the flippin' floppy Wink

now (Thankfully with no work on it!) so I had to replace it anyway!
My prefered method is to use a USB Memory stick... My bro has a 512 stick, and I have the Creative MuVo 256mb USB2.0 MP3 Player... Why do they have to give them such flippin long names!! It seems completely reliable from my use of it.
Dan

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