Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Cougar428
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 07:09 pm

-=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Cougar428 <=-

 -=> Cougar428 wrote to NEOSHOCK <=-
 
 Co>  I did buy a couple spares, but have never had to use them. I also back
 Co>  it up with an HP 400/800MB tape drive and Colorado backup DOS - JIC.

 PF> And now I'm hearing the sound of a QIC drive hooked up to a floppy
 PF> controller.   Fwuuuuuuup.... Fwuuuuuuuup... long pause...
 PF> fweeeeeeeep... And so on, for hours. Damn, those things were slow.

 My HP drive is parallel so it may be even slower than the floppy
 controller units, but it has worked flawlessly. I regularly run 4 tapes
 with full backups and no compression. Not sure why, as there's not much
 that's important on the drive (except Wordstar, Lotus 123, Grandview 2
 and dBase III+ and of course Blue Wave.

.... Junk: stuff we throw away.  Stuff: junk we keep.

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