[muglo] Re: cd

on 9/10/02 3:02 PM, Jim Taylor at hawk@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> OK, I'll ask the dumb question. Miss not being able to back up stuff just by
> inserting a disc. Was going to buy a zip drive but thot I didn't really need
> one since my computer holds nothing really important.
> Well, now it does. To me anyway so I'm thinking of getting some backup.
> I've been watching the exchange about zips and CD burners.  It looks to
> me like CDs are the way to go. problem is that, as usual, I haven't a club
> about them. I avoided going that route because I figured I just be letting
> myself in for a headache. I keep hearing it's not  hard to do.
> Is a CD burner something you buy like a printer or whatever? And if you
> do buy one are they difficult to set up and use? At lest for a non-techie
> like me. Just curious.
> By the way, my frozen cursor was, it seems, the mouse. I bot a cheap
> logitech mouse and now everything seems to work fine.
> Oh, and I have a G4, 9.0.4 OS and 129 megs.
> jim

Hi Jim & Paul,

Like I have stated before, I picked up a refurbished Iomega Zip 650 CD
burner at Computer Liquidators on Horton Street for $149. It has a 3 month
warrenty and comes with Toast, the latest version. They also honor the
warrenty and will replace it if anything is wrong.

http://www.iomega.com/na/products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=688
15&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=63235&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=63191&bmUID=1031706133
273

The set up and use is very simple, and as others have said blank CD-R's are
very cheap compared to Zip discs and are able to be used by Windows,
depending on the data stored and what needs to be read.

Anyway, really happy with it and although it is slow (because it is
external) but I just set it up and burn when I'm doing something else and
away from the iBook. Takes about 35-40 minutes to burn 700 MB's - firewire
is alot faster. Also have it connected to a self-powered external hub and it
works fine.

Tim



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