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Re: [Digital BW] Better Storage, was Better Scans

2001-11-15 by SKID Photography

jeffm@... wrote:

>
> SKID Photography wrote:
>
> > We got the Peerless because it was really an IBM product, so that it shouldn't suffer the 'click of death'
> .
>
> I think I can guess... but for the record, what exactly is the "click of
> death" ??
>
> -Jeff
>

The 'click of death' is the sound the zip drive makes as it dies.  If you put a faulty disk in your machine it
makes that sound, and ruins the zip drive.  It was described to us as a 'mechanical virus'.  It happened to
us.   :- (

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID photography, NYC





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