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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Ahh, the CueCat, I have firsthand knowledge of those dumbass things as a former Radio$hack employee. Completely and utterly worthless, the company could not literally give them away.
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When you have 1200 CDs and a couple hundred DVDs, and a collection database program that can process the CueCat's input, the fact that you can pick those babys up for next to nothing is a Godsend.
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Originally Posted by Zip Drive
Click-click-click. That was the sound of data dying on thousands of Iomega Zip drives. Though Iomega sold tens of millions of Zip and Jaz drives that worked flawlessly, thousands of the drives died mysteriously, issuing a clicking noise as the drive head became misaligned and clipped the edge of the removable media, rendering any data on that disc permanently inaccessible.
pb]Iomega largely ignored the problem[/b] until angry customers filed a class action suit in 1998, which the company settled three years later by offering rebates on future products. And the Zip disk, once the floppy's heir apparent, has largely been eclipsed by thumb drives and cheaper, faster, more capacious rewritable CDs and DVDs.
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That's bullshit. I had a Zip 100 from the start, and it eventually developed the 'click of death' after about 6 years of use. Called customer service, they sent a voucher for me to mail the unit to them, and when they verified that was the problem, send me a new unit AND 30 blank discs on my word that that was how many I had that COULD be affected.