Good Bye SparQ

[Cold_Zero]

Ok, so I am a pack rat. I keep everything computer related, including a 5 1/4 floppy disk drive and my Commie 64 (which still works). We are cleaning out the office and I am pitching things that are just taking up space in the office closet. I am finally throwing away my SyQuest SparQ drive and SparQ disks. The SparQ drive was a very good concept. When Iomega had a 100MB drive out on the market that offered more than enough disc space, the SparQ drive offered 1 Gig removable discs at a cheaper price. Before anyone calls dibs on this stuff, the Achilles heal was poor build quality. If you had a bad drive, it would destroy the disc. If you put that bad disc into another working drive you would destroy the drive and so on. I guess I kept it thinking that it might serve a purpose down the road or something, but the company went bankrupt and no longer exists. So I took an industrial magnet to the discs and going to recycle the drive and the discs.

Anyone else have one of these pieces of ****?bud

[MinisterofDOOM]

I just googled it. Never seen one before. We had a Zip drive in an older PC. I actually installed the drive in my parents' newer PC because they have so much stuff on those old Zip disks. Plus, back in '04 Flash memory was still pricey and writing to optical was cumbersome, so the zip disks were still nice. Now that flash memory's so cheap, even the SparQ discs are pretty much pointless.

I'd love to have a 5 1/4'' floppy drive sitting in the bay below my DVD writer just for the hell of it.

[Cold_Zero]

I just googled it. Never seen one before. We had a Zip drive in an older PC. I actually installed the drive in my parents' newer PC because they have so much stuff on those old Zip disks. Plus, back in '04 Flash memory was still pricey and writing to optical was cumbersome, so the zip disks were still nice. Now that flash memory's so cheap, even the SparQ discs are pretty much pointless.

I'd love to have a 5 1/4'' floppy drive sitting in the bay below my DVD writer just for the hell of it.

I know memory and drive space is cheap now, but in 1997 1 gig of removable space was huge compared to the Iomega Zip drive of 100MB.

Now 3.5" Floppies are hard to come by in rigs.

[szh]

I know memory and drive space is cheap now, but in 1997 1 gig of removable space was huge compared to the Iomega Zip drive of 100MB.

Now 3.5" Floppies are hard to come by in rigs.

The older 5.25" floppy drives are totally long-gone too (as I am sure you know! )

But, for randomness's sake, I still have a dual floppy drive in my old PC ... made by Teac, it has two slots and can handle both formats. Way cool! And, an old IBM 5.25" floppy (from an original PC AT that I once had - ran at 6MHz - yes, 6Mhz!) stashed away in a closet in my garage. I am a pack-rat too!

Z