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Re[2]: Zip drives (was: RE: Telecommuting/office set-up)
Subject:Re[2]: Zip drives (was: RE: Telecommuting/office set-up) From:Andy_Altevers -at- STERCOMM -dot- COM Date:Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:53:11 -0500
The Iomega ZIP drive comes with an executable for Windows 3.1 and another for
Windows95. I wrote them concerning their poor documentation because the file
they say is the Win95 executable, ain't. It's not too hard to figure out though.
- Andy
Any opinions expressed in this document are mine alone. If you happen to hold
the same opinion, you owe me residuals.
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Subject: Re: Zip drives (was: RE: Telecommuting/office set-up)
From: "Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> at Internet-Mail
Date: 12/3/96 11:34 AM
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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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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 DouglassRe[2]: Zip drives (was: RE: Telecommuting/office set-up)