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Re: Zip Click of Death?
From:
Uzi Paz <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 09:24:40 +0200
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> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:25:56 -0500
> From: Michael Wosnick <[log in to unmask]>
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> There has been recent reference to the "Click of Death" using Zip Drives. As
> someone who just purchased a brand new Dell with an internal Zip Drive (and
> having no previous experience with Zip Drives of any kind), can someone
> elaborate on the "click of death"? I have no idea what this is, or what
> problems I should "anticipate" etc.

Just to add to what have been already said:

There was a nice article on it, on CNET's news.com .
See:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18622,00.html

It had references to some sites.

Uzi

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