Re: [i18n] new strings in gi

[Pablo Saratxaga]

Kaixo!

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:53:57PM +0200, Marek Laane wrote:

> No, it's ZIP-drive, kind of external disk (well, like a floppy), today 
> probably more ancestors of USB sticks and kind :-).

Similarly "Jazz" is another kind of similar thing (from the same
company I think, but with greater capacity).

They were quite popular some years ago, when standard floppies (1.44MB) were
the main removable r/w medium; but obviously too limited in capacity.
Bruning CD drives were too expensive for most people, so a big floppy
of 250MB was very nice.
Their physical size were a bit smaller than a CD (but square, like a floppy,
and thicker).

There were IDE, SCSI and parallel port drives (actually, the driver
itself was SCSI; but there were models with a small hardware conversion
to use them on IDE or parallel).

Parallel models were quite popular, as they were perfect to carry
along with the floppies and plug on any machine (even nowadays all
standard PC come with a parallel port).

IDE and SCSI ones can be auto-detected without (much) problem;
but any kind of parallel thing is problematic (parallel port was never
designed for that kind of auto-detection querying), so extensive
auto-detection of any parallel-plugable device that has existed is
not a good idea; it is disabled by default, and the user can ask
explicitely for it, trough the menu that is translated in DrakX:
"autodetect parallel _zip drives", etc.

Back then they were indeed the cool thing any geek wanted to have,
much like USB sticks now.

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