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Sabrent 64-in-1 Multi Flash Media Card Reader (CRW-UINB)
List Price: $13.99
Sale Price: $5.00
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Sabrent 68-in-1 USB 2.0 Internal Memory Card Reader/Writer This internal USB 2.0 Card Reader/Writer (CRW) device fits into 3.5¨ drive bay to save the desktop space, it provides an ideal solution for those who want the convenience and mobility to read and write the most popular memory cards. This ingenious device connects to a motherboard's internal USB header port (most PII and newer motherboards have them, and most aren't used). Sharing the data is quick and easy. Share between media types or to the computer. It can also be used as an effective hard drive to transmit large amount of data immediately between the memory cards and the host computer through USB 2.0 interface. Technology has made it easy to snap high-quality digital pictures, or take music on the road with MP3 players, but sharing this data between devices wasn't easy until now. The 16-in-1 reader/writer provides a common data exchange point for all sort of memory card storage types. Data can now be easily transf
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Iomega 31310 Zip 250 MB USB-Powered Drive
List Price: $138.99
Sale Price: $98.99
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Now it's even easier to take your Zip drive zipping around town. With its USB cable that provides both data and power, the new Zip 250MB USB Powered Drive does not need an external power source. At only nine ounces, you can take it anywhere and everywhere. And, the sleek new design will have you showing it off to all your jealous friends.
Nothing beats a Zip drive for transporting large files or making backups, as it combines proven speed and reliability with the most widespread compatibility. In our tests, we found that this extremely versatile 250 MB USB-powered Zip drive makes it child's play to add this capability to your PC or Mac. And its small, lightweight design makes an excellent travel companion, especially since it doesn't even need batteries or an external power source. The drive comes with detailed, easy-to-follow installation instructions, but you probably won't even need them. Just run the setup program and plug the drive into your USB port; your PC will automatically assign a drive letter to it and recognize it as a removable disk drive. There aren't any jumpers or switches to set; in fact, the drive has only one button, which ejects the disk. Once it's installed, you use it just like a floppy drive to save or copy files. Physically, the drive sports a very thin, light plastic case, measuring 169 by 117 by 26 millimeters and weighing only 1.5 pounds. It draws all its power from the USB port, so there's no need for batteries or an external power supply. And, like any USB device, it's hot swappable: you can plug or unplug it without restarting your computer. It can sit flat on a table or stand upright with the included plastic stand. Once we started playing with the USB-powered Zip 250, we immediately saw many situations in which it would come in handy. For example, say you wanted to do some work at home. You could easily copy the files to a Zip disk, take the drive home with you, and then just plug it into your PC and be ready to go. Since it's compatible with both PC and Macs, it's perfect for sharing files across operating systems. And of course, its compact shape makes it ideal for taking on the road. The drive performed well in both our read and write testing; we didn't encounter any glitches, and it took just a little over 2 minutes to copy 100 MB of MP3 files to the drive. That's fast enough for most uses, and much faster than a Zip drive hooked up to a standard parallel or serial port, but not as fast as an internal IDE or SCSI Zip drive. Iomega includes some valuable backup utilities with the Zip drive, as well as some other useful applications. Iomega Backup lets you create and schedule compressed backups of specific folders or entire drives. MusicMatch Jukebox is an excellent utility for ripping CDs and organizing your digital music files. And Adobe's ActiveShare offers a slick interface for manipulating photos and sharing them on the Web. The USB-powered 250 MB Zip drive offers an inexpensive and simple way to add removable storage to your PC or Mac. Its slim, light design makes it absolutely invaluable for road warriors who needs to take their data with them. --Ken Feinstein Pros: Slim and lightweight Very simple installation Works with PCs and Macs Gets all its power from the USB port Cons: Not as fast as internal drives
Now it's even easier to take your Zip drive around town. With its USB cable, which provides both data and power, the Zip 250 MB USB-powered drive does not need an external power source. Not only is the new Zip 250 MB USB-powered drive the most portable storage solution out there, but it's also great-looking and easy to carry. At only nine ounces, you can take it anywhere and everywhere. And, the sleek new design will have you showing it off to all your jealous friends. Powered by a USB cable, it's easy to connect (just plug it in) and easy to launch (no rebooting). The new 250 Zip Drive is compatible with most major operating systems and all Zip 100 MB and 250 MB Zip disks.
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Iomega 10919 Zip 100 Drive (Parallel Port)
Sale Price: $65.00
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Z100ATAPI - Zip100
Apple P/N: 655-0657
As New Condition, Zip disk included
Is your hard disk running out of room? Do you need to protect your valuable data? Consider Iomega's Parallel Port Zip 100 drive, an inexpensive and portable external disk drive. Iomega says it has sold over 100 million of its 100 MB Zip disks, the floppy companions to the Zip 100 drive, and we believe them based on how easy it was for us to set up and use the Zip 100. We just plugged it in, connected a cable to our PC's parallel port, dropped in the CD-ROM, and followed the setup wizard. The CD-ROM comes with the necessary software to make the Zip 100 act like any other drive on your PC--except the Zip 100 has a 100-MB storage capacity. We set the drive up on our test machine and copying files to and from drive F was just as easy as it was on drive A or C. You can still use your printer with the Zip 100, as the external drive includes its own parallel port. Iomega recommends that you connect no more than one additional device to the Zip 100, but in our test, we "daisy chained" three peripherals--a printer connected to a scanner connected to the Zip 100 connected to our PC--without encountering any device conflicts. We used the included 1-Step Backup and 1-Step Restore utilities to back up and restore several hundred megabytes of an old Pentium's hard disk. The process was entirely intuitive and flawless but slow. We did not even approach the claimed 25-MB-per-minute performance, but that's just the way peripheral life is when you're using a parallel port. The Zip 100 is self-contained, and if you take along the parallel cable and AC power supply, it becomes portable. However, the real convenience comes from the Zip disks themselves. The disks have a tough plastic shell and come in a CD-type jewel box, so little protective precautions are required as you exchange data with Zip-owning friends. Pros Inexpensive Easy to install and use Portable Rewritable media Cons Slow data-transfer rate Impractical for backing up more than a few hundred megabytes
Take advantage of your PC's easy-to-use parallel port to start enjoying the convenience of a 100MB External Zip(r) drive right now.
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MacDrive 7
List Price: $49.95
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Share files between Mac disks and Windows.MacDrive turns Windows PCs and Intel-based Macs running Boot Camp into cross-platform file sharing powerhouses giving them the ability to open edit and save files from Mac disks.With MacDrive there is nothing new to learn or launch; just pop in any Mac disk and access files just like you would with a PC disk. You can even burn CDs and DVDs as well as format Mac disks.MacDrive is perfect for anyone using both a Mac and a PC. MacDrive works with all your favorite software from Microsoft Adobe Apple Quark FileMaker Avid Digidesign and more.System Requirements:Microsoft® Windows XP 2003 Server 2000 Me 98SE with Internet Explorer 6 (or newer). MacDrive works with all FireWire (IEEE1394a/b) USB 1.1/2.0 SCSI IDE SATA Fibre Channel parallel-port and other disk devices supported by Windows. Installation of MacDrive requires less than 10MB hard disk storage. Low density (400KB and 800KB) Mac disks are not accessible due to floppy drive limitations.Format: WIN 98ME2000XPVISTA Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 608498006636 Manufacturer No: MD70-E0WR
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EZ-SCSI Deluxe Edition 5.0
List Price: $89.00
Sale Price: $12.99
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Adaptec EZ-SCSI Deluxe v.5.0 - 1 User 1684800 PC Utilities
The Small Computer Serial Interface (SCSI) standard remains one of the fastest, most efficient interfaces for hard drives, CD-R drives, and other equipment that needs a lot of bandwidth to function properly. If you've invested in a SCSI device (like a CD burner) and it didn't come with EZ-SCSI Deluxe 5.0, you'll likely want to pony up a little extra cash to get this excellent SCSI management software. It lets users squeeze maximum performance from their SCSI hardware and supplies enough advanced tools to keep SCSI experts happy. The CD-RW drive we tested the software with originally ran with the "lite" version of EZ-SCSI, and after installing this Deluxe version we were faced with a host of useful options. SCSI Explorer was there to tell us all about our attached SCSI devices, from their capacity to information about the SCSI adapter we were using. Using the included SCSIBench utility, we were able to see how fast all our SCSI components worked together, which was great for seeing if some of the tweaks we tried made any difference in overall speed. Of course, this software wouldn't be Deluxe without some new features, and there are more than we have space to discuss. The WebCheck-Up feature made it easy to keep our SCSI device drivers current by automatically looking for updates. The Drive Preparer handled partitioning chores on our SCSI hard drive with aplomb. Adaptec even threw in a copy of Easy-CD Creator Lite so CD-R and CD-RW users can start burning CDs right away. Combine all these features with EZ-SCSI's more familiar system backup and disk formatting tools, and you end up with a utility suite no SCSI user should be without. --T. Byrl Baker
Install all of your SCSI devices with the latest 95 and NT 4.0 drivers, and make them truly perform. Twelve software tools are combined into a comprehensive utility to take advantage of your SCSI peripherals, such as tape drives, CD recorders, scanners, Zip drives, Jaz, and hard drives.
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Mike Meyers' A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs Lab Manual, Second Edition
Sale Price: $1.88
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Practice the IT Skills Essential for Your Success 60+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies Step-by-step scenarios require you to think critically Lab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab results Key term quizzes help build your vocabulary In this lab manual, you'll practice:Working with CPUs, RAM, and motherboardsInstalling, partitioning, and formatting hard drives Working with portable PCs, PDAs, and wireless technologies Installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Installing sound and video cards Managing printers and connecting to networks Implementing security measuresPreparing for safety and environmental issuesEstablishing good communication skills and adhering to privacy policies
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Mike Meyers' A+ Guide: Essentials Lab Manual (Exam 220-601) (Mike Meyers' Guides)
Sale Price: $3.97
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Essential skills for IT professionalsMike Meyers A+ Guide to PC Hardware Lab Manual, Second Edition features 40-plus lab exercises that challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies and step-by-step scenarios that require critical thinking. You'll also get post-lab observation questions that measure your understanding of lab results and key term quizzes that help build vocabulary.
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The Iomega Zip Drive: a Quick History
For many years the floppy disk dominated the data backup market for the home user as they offered affordable data storage. Ok using floppies was akward, slow and highly unreliable but at the time it was all we had. Then along came the Zip drive and the world of data backup changed overnight thanks to the creator of the Zip drive - Iomega. No longer were you restricted to a paltry 1.4MB of disk storage - now you could fit 100MB on one single Zip disk. Later this increased to, a then, massive 750MB of storage space which was completely unheard of at the time.
Zip drives worked in almost exactly the same way as a floppy disk except they were physically bigger and provided a much higher data transfer rate than home users had ever seen before in an "external" data storage device. The biggest problem with Zip drives is that although they were similar to floppy disks you still needed a separate Zip drive to read or write to these disks which in turn meant more expense for home users. Also there was a rival technology called the LS-120 or SuperDisk that found favour with many computer manufacturers (ironically enough the Zip drive long outlived the LS-120 in terms of popularity and usefulness) so the Zip drive faced an uphill struggle from it's introduction to an eager computer market.
The Zip drive was/is available in a few different flavors. There were parallel, SCSI, USB and IDE Zip drives available on the market at one stage. This meant that regardles of what type of computer you had you'd be able to find a Zip drive with a compatible interface. This meant that both Mac and PC users tended to love the Zip drive although most Mac users tended to favor the Zips bigger SCSI brother - the Jaz drive... that however is the topic for another article for another day.
Alas for all their ingenuity the Zip drive has become all but obsolete. The current growth in hard drive storage capacities has meant that any storage device offering less than 10GB - 20GB of storage space is all but ignored as a useful backup device. Any computer user reading this who has ever owned a Zip drive will probably feel the same sense of nostalgia I felt when writing it. The Zip drive was incredibly revolutionary in it's day and paved the way for a real boom in data backup technology for homes and small businesses. RIP Zip drive.... you shall be missed.
About the Author
Iomega Zip drives provided a rugged and reliable form of data backup for many years. If you want to know what a zip drive is and how it works then pay a visit to http://www.backupadvice.com for more information on Zip drives and all kinds of backup devices.
SCSI drivers without a floppy drive?
I'm trying to install Server 2003 on a server and the SCSI drivers are on a floppy. Problem...it doesn't come with a floppy drive. Server 03 won't recognize any other medium for the SCSI drivers except for a floppy. Any idea? Is Server 03 really that outdated that it has to have a floppy disk??
Get a floppy drive... what's the problem with that? Don't you have any old systems with floppy drives in them? Take the drive out of that and install it in the new system. Otherwise, try using an external USB floppy drive. If those ideas don't work for you, then slipstream the SCSI drivers into a new 2003 install CD and you won't have to worry about it.
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