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fallacy:

--- Quote ---I went to school for video and animation, before personal CD burners. 1 floppy wasn't going to cut it. I had the foresight to realize that 1000 $1 floppies was going to cost me more than 1 $100 Jaz disk.

Some people didn't have Jaz drives and just stored their projects on the school's servers and made copies of their video and animations onto Beta tapes at the end of the semester, but they couldn't back up all their raw or working files. And that's if the school's server didn't crash, get a virus or corrupted. At the end of my Lightwave class an Asian girl was crying because her files were deleted from the server before she could make a copy of them.

I don't think there's anything on this drive worth crying over. I created a D-Paint animation in school. I have the animation on Beta, but I'm hoping there's a digital copy on this drive.
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That sounds too familiar. Did you happen to go to the Art Institute of Colorado around  2002 time?
http://www.artinstitutes.edu/denver/

lilshawn:
with this drive being so old, often the gyro stabilization used inside the cartridge gets old and looses it's effectiveness... the vibrations from the motor render the disk unreadable since the heads can't track the disk properly.

EDIT:

i remember at one time iomega used to have a data recovery business... (kinda shows how reliable their products are) dunno if they still do or not.

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: fallacy on December 09, 2011, 04:02:13 pm ---That sounds too familiar. Did you happen to go to the Art Institute of Colorado around  2002 time?
http://www.artinstitutes.edu/denver/

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Columbia, Chicago. around 96.

It's an art school. Security on the servers were nonexistent. I think each class had a folder and inside that folder was a folder for each student. Nothing was locked or blocked, you could look into any folder for any class.

The servers would fill up fast and students would delete other students' files (even other classes' folders) to make room for their files. Around finals the server would always get a virus. It seemed like students infected the computer so they could have something to blame for not having their project done in time. I lost a HyperCard project to the Christmas Tree virus.

It was crazy I can’t believe how things were run back then and how people put up with it. I couldn't, that's why I bought the Jaz.

Howard_Casto:
Dang man!  If AIC still had unprotected servers and was using Jaz drives in 2002 then I would demand my money back!

I guess I forget that some schools had.... ahem... less than competant network admins.  I worked in the computer center for my university when I went there so I guess I had a more vested interest in the security of the data.  Mind you it's still a university so you can only do so much... mostly because the professors are too stupid to figure out anything complex.  ;)  We did keep everything running and backup any network storage daily though.  We also allowed students to password protect their storage area and give them individual network rights, meaning that nobody could even look at their folders unless they let em. 

This was 98-2001 and we were a fairly tiny university.  You would think AIC would do a little better considering their promenance. 

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