From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Zip files needed
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:18:53 GMT
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tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Tom Wheeley) wrote:

>But I actually find it faster to ARJ -m0 the files onto floppies and copy it
>across than to leave it copying over a serial cable.  Of course, you can
>always go and make yourself a nice refreshing cup of tea whilst it is
>copying, rather than swap disks all day :-)

Still wildly off topic, but I have to say that my dream data transfer
device is my Travan tape drive. It's an Iomeda Ditto 800, so it's a
small light box with a seperate PSU and a parallel lead hanging off
it. 400Mb to a tape, but of course the manufacturers claim 800Mb with
compression! Anyway, I can take it round a friend's house and take a
copy of his entire HDD if I want (ask first, kids!), at a rate of
about 5megs a minute, then take it home again... and it works as a
backup device, too!

It's worth about a hundred quid, but I got it free (smug)


ABW
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