The trials of technology.

[kfops]

So, me being the yutzenfutz that I am, like to keep my Linux install all shiny and new.  Things were working wonderfully, but like most things that go so well, there has to be a catch somewhere

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[pierrekrahn]

Well at least it's not parallel port, like my ZIP Disk Drive from 10 years ago :(

I used to think those 100MB disks held sooo much information!

[kfops]

Ironically, my parallel port Zip Drive is still supported. Though the actual drive seems to have finally developed the click of doom.

But honestly, they were a good piece of hardware at the time... it made it possible to actually get files to the service bureau!

[pierrekrahn]

Ah yes, the click of doom that Iomega had denied for years but finally came around and admitted they were aware of the problem all along. I think there was a class action lawsuit a few years back.

Yes, at the time it was (sadly) the best way to move anything over 1.44MB. Funny how within a couple of years USB thumb drives were the same price as the disks alone and you didn't have to buy a reader either.

[plonq]

I share the pain. I have a bitch of a time finding any support for my old SCSI scanner.

[kfops]

Ah yes, I traveled this road as well. I used to have an Adaptec 2940UW that (sometimes) conflicted with something else in my machine. It would not conflict under OS/2, but under Windows it would freeze the machine all the time. I finally gave up and bought an all-in-one USB scanner, but not after a lot of fighting.

It took me a while to figure out that just because they were cheap doesn't mean they were bad, and that I usually just scanned line art to colour, so as long as I could get a passable black-and-white it was all good.

Oh, the memories!

[urocyon]

I finally found the wallwart for my old Wacom. That's when I realized my current computer doesn't have an rs232 port.

[kfops]

Alas, poor fox! It's like technology has left us behind. Or our budgets have, one of the two.

Funny thing, that technology. I heard about this documentary and thought of you, considering it was because of you I actually got to meet the man in person, if just for a brief moment.

[urocyon]

And I killed him. I'll never forget his look of profound sadness.

[kfops]

It made me sad, too.

Sad, sad, sad. I'm a sad man.

And that makes me mad.

Mad, mad, mad.