"Removable" hard drives (was Re: Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server)

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, John Foust wrote:

> At 09:45 PM 10/4/2004, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >RC25 anyone?!?  (grinning, running and ducking)
>
> CD-RW maybe?  DVD-RW maybe?  DVD-RAM maybe?
I now use ZIP and JAZ drives for this (mostly in the PDP-11 and VAX
range of systems) and that works really well.  Of course, capacity
is not as great, but it's kinda nice to have a stack of ZIP100
disks labelled "RD53 MicroRSX V4" and such.  Also, easy to xfer
disk images between my lappy (which has both a ZIP and a JAZ drive)
and the test/production systems ;)

--f