[kwlug disc.] anyone need a 250M zip drive?

[Paul Nijjar]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Chris Bruner wrote:

> My boss likes DOS, and USB/flash just doesn't exist for that. Old Tech
> rules!
>
> Marko Vidberg wrote:
> > I find it amazing that anyone would bother with a zip drive anymore...
> > as you can get a 1 Gig flash thumb drives for $24.99

	This issue also comes up with respect to older laptops. It is
still believable that somebody might want to install Linux on an old P1
laptop (or even a 486) because laptops are cute. Such systems typically
do not come with working USB ports, but may have parallel ports.

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