If you haven't yet purchased a zip disk/drive, and have a USB port, you may be interested in purchasing a removeable Cruzer USB disk. I just picked one up (though I do have a Zip Drive/disks already). It's a great device and is very small. I've had it about a month now and so far, so good. You don't need to install any user software to get it to work. As soon as you plug it in, it mounts onto your desktop like any other removeable drive and you can simply copy files to it. Since I have a Mac, I thought this wasgreat way to share files more quickly with my PeeCee-using friends. The product is PC-compatible too. Here's a link to the company site.
http://www.sandisk.com/consumer/cruzer.asp
I picked mine up from my local discount tech. store (Best Buy)
The Cruzer uses tiny removeable media, the kind that are used in digital cameras or Palm Pilots. The parent company (San Disk) makes the cards and you can buy additional ones, but one comes with the unit already.
I know this sounds like a sales pitch, but just trying to share some insight into a cool techy product.
BTW- Sony makes a similar device, but I didn't want to pay more for the name, especially since it didn't have removeable/upgradeable cards (perhaps they make other models)...and,although the Sony had a 128 MB capacity, the Cruzer, with it's removeable card is also 128 MB, and... not only can I buy additional cards (which are cheaper for the smaller capacity versions), but I can use the cards in my Palm.
Posted on Oct 19, 2002, 9:14 PM from IP address 68.100.30.182
