Am I nuts? SSD, 530s, XP SP3 no go

[dencorso]

13 hours ago, Dibya said:

nt 4.0 from floppy drive?

9 hours ago, jaclaz said:

Not really a "floppy".

Well, you could have used an LS-120, and that'd be even nearer to a floppy, right? (One can run floppies from a superdisk drive...).

[jaclaz]

23 minutes ago, dencorso said:

Well, you could have used an LS-120, and that'd be even nearer to a floppy, right? (One can run floppies from a superdisk drive...).

 

Oww, come on.

What do you think I could have used in 1995-1997?

Quick timetable:

Windows 3.11 = 1993

Zip disk=1994

Windows 95=1995

NT4.0=1996

Superdisk=1997 (and for whatever reason didn't really come to Italy before late 1998 or so, and they were very expensive, whilst Zip disks were common, relatively cheap and - I believe the SCSI ones at least, the parallel port ones were slow as molasses - much, much faster than superdisks)

Both however soon became obsolete by 1999 or so, replaced by CDRW's, though I have used IDE/ATAPI ZIP disks up to 2004 or 2005, as they were just perfect as removable backup solution for a specific setup I had (DOS based) that used between 70 and 90 Mb of data.

JFYI:

http://www.hardwarecentral.com/showthread.php?42546-Zip-vs-Superdisk-(LS-120)
 

 

jaclaz
 

[dencorso]

I know. I still have two Zip100s and a Zip250 (all IDE) sitting on a shelf right beside me here. But LS-120s look more like floppies and can actually read and write common floppies... that's what I was thinking about: looks, not actual reliability.

[Dibya]

Old is Gold ! Nothing to say .