Biennial Crash Testing

[Holly Lisle]

> Jaz drives; and as they are being touted as one of the most 
> wonderful things to hit the computer since the mouse (or 
> sometimes the sledgehammer) I suspect it's probably not all
> that bad.  However, it costs a lot for those backup disks.
> Last I knew the minimum price anywhere came out to somewhere
> around $60 a disk, and that was buying more than one at a
> time.


Priced them yesterday.  Ouch.  I could install an eighteen gig hard 
drive for less that it would cost me to set up a Jaz and sufficient 
tapes to back up my current eight gig drive.  I'm kind of thinking 
along Guy's suggestion of adding another hard drive and backing up 
to that.

Holly
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