From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 9:30: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CB037B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5QGRUx01832; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:27:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200106261627.f5QGRUx01832@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Linh Pham Cc: j mckitrick , Ryan Masse , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: which is faster zip drive under FreeBSD: usb or parallel? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:00:23 PDT." From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:27:29 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Linh ladeled, > I haven't touched a parallel port Zip drive in a long while, They're really quite useful. I had to pout my printer on top of a file cabinet (whose idea was it to give professors a 3'x5' desk and no computer table?). My cable just wasn't long enough, though. Zip to the rescue! plug in a parallel zip drive, then plug the printer into the zip! YOu'rein business. I suppose I could have asked for a deisk to put in it, but my data's more important than that . . . -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message