[Techtalk] firewire

[Maria Blackmore]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Piglet wrote:

> Don't forget zip disks as an option......mayhap not as compact as an
> external, but certainly more compact per megabyte than floppies....

Yet is susceptable to all the same problems, with few advantages.

Zip discs are very fragile, hardly to be recommended for any for of long
term or critical data storage.

Jaz discs, on the other hand, are much better, due to the fact that they
use magneto-optical storage technology, and are thus inherently much more
robust (unless you leave them sitting in direct sunlight, which will
erase them after a time:).

Maria