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    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to neoshock on Mon Apr 28 09:13:00 2025
    Hello neoshock!

    Zip disks were a life saver for me before CD-R's, I can't recall ever having an issue with any zip-disks.

    Wasn't there in issue with zip disks "click of death", or
    something like that?


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  • From neoshock@21:1/150 to Ogg on Mon Apr 28 21:08:43 2025
    Zip disks were a life saver for me before CD-R's, I can't recall ever having an issue with any zip-disks.

    Wasn't there in issue with zip disks "click of death", or
    something like that?

    I actually never heard of that, not until much later during retrospective discussions. I went to school for 3d Animation, and was very important to be able to save your work on a medium you had full control of, and floppies were way to small for that. So maybe I was just lucky. Our school had a choice of zip disks or Jazz disks. Since I already owned a zip drive, it was what I used. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to do some school work at home.

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to neoshock on Tue Apr 29 06:37:54 2025
    Wasn't there in issue with zip disks "click of death", or
    something like that?

    I actually never heard of that, not until much later during retrospective discussions. I went to school for 3d Animation, and was very important
    to be able to save your work on a medium you had full control of, and floppies were way to small for that. So maybe I was just lucky. Our
    school had a choice of zip disks or Jazz disks. Since I already owned a zip drive, it was what I used. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to do some school work at home.

    Here's a link that talks about the "click of death": https://www.grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm

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  • From Alonzo@21:1/130 to neoshock on Tue May 13 05:10:41 2025
    Wasn't there in issue with zip disks "click of death", or
    something like that?
    I used a Zip drive for years and never had a single problem. No disk
    failures of any kind. For me, it was a very dependable medium.

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