zip drive

[Michael Haseltine]

I'm not sure why I didn't get the original message this is a response to, so
my response isn't to that, it's to the $500 price on zip drives. At least
the 100MB model has been available since day one for $200.

At 07:37 AM 6/18/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I wonder if you can take time to tell me about the problem with zip drives?
>
>Are there problems involved here beyond the fact that someone was doing
>something they shouldn't have been to library property? (I can imagine this
>scenario and it makes me sort of chuckle at how it must have been for all
>parties involved! That was one confident computer user:)))
>
>I hadn't thought about using them on the general access library computers
>(maybe one station?) It occurrs to me that it might be a good idea.
>
>A zip drive was donated to a class I took last semester and we could take it
>out of the cupboard, hook it up to one of the lab computers and copy needed
>files onto personal zip disks. It was very convenient.
>
>They cost about $500 and coming down, maybe the cost wouldn't be justified
>for the amount of use? Maybe more suitable for special libraries or research
>libraries?
>Maybe it's already being done in places?
>
>Any comments on the suitability of providing this as an aid to patrons? 
>
>
>Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com
>serendipity RULES!
>
>> 11:25 PM 6/17/96 -0700, Caroline Habluetzel wrote:
>
>>enough to tinker at someones machine. We catched a patron installing a 
>>zip-drive on one of our public computers...
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Michael Haseltine -- Arid Lands Information Center, University of Arizona
haseltin at ag.arizona.edu