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Re: Zip drives (was: RE: Telecommuting/office set-up)
Subject:Re: Zip drives (was: RE: Telecommuting/office set-up) From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:34:03 -0800
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At 11:03 AM 12/3/96 -0600, Eric Haddock wrote:
> Our problem with Zip was with the driver software. We tried to install
>an Epson Zip drive on a machine running Windows95. Alas, the installation
>software is incompatible with Windows95 somehow (we tried multiple W95
>'puters). We were able to get it going on one running WindowsNT however.
That's news to me, as I've been using my ZIP drive exclusively under Win95
since I installed it.
I don't think it's the driver software.
Win
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Win Day
Technical Writer/Editor
Email: winday -at- idirect -dot- com
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Like Win, my wife has never had a problem with her Zip drive. She asks, "Is
it an Iomega Zip drive or an Epson Zip drive?" She wonders if "Zip" has
already become a generic term for high capacity storage disks. I know
SyQuest makes a competing product. Does Epson?
--Wayne Douglass
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