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Remember Zip Disks? These Election Departments Do
TechTarget - IT Knowledge Exchange ^
| 3-21-2017
| Sharon Fisher
Posted on 03/22/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT by spintreebob
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After the 2000 hanging chads, Sen Chris Dodd,D-CT pushed through Congress and Bush signed HAVA-Help America Vote Act with funding. Although Republicans had the President and both houses of Congress, Friends-of-Dodd controlled HAVA and spending of HAVA money... and continue to control it through the present when we again have the President and both houses of Congress.
Michael R McCarthy owns ESS that got the HAVA money to sell his stuff to Republican Election Boards. McCarthy donates 95% D, especially Act Blue, and 5% R (Ayotte and others I never heard of). Soros owns other companies that get HAVA money for stuff they sell to Republican Election Boards. A CT friend and donor of Sen Dodd exclaimed "It's as if HAVA was written specifically for me." He also sells (mostly software) to Republican election officals.
And we wonder who controls our elections? Republican Secretarys of State and County Election Boards are just thrilled to get FREE money that they don't have to go begging to the legislature and be accountable to the legislature. FREE money. What could go wrong?
To: spintreebob
I still have files on zip disks. For awhile dell sold desktops with optional zip drives.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:18:54 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: spintreebob
I remember the “click of death”
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:20:53 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
To: spintreebob
It’s a bit unnerving that some of our election results may be subject to “The click of death”.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:22:49 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
To: Secret Agent Man
I threw my Zip disks and drives out years ago. Parallel port interface. Take you back?
To: spintreebob
My precinct uses these:
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:25:43 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: spintreebob
Vindication for Jill Stein, who thought voting machines could be hacked with a floppy disk?
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:28:59 PM PDT
by
x
To: Secret Agent Man
A ton of my undergrad stuff were on those things. There was simply nothing else that could hold the file sizes I needed back in 2000.
But 30 bucks for 100MB? Seems like a bad joke now especially how those things could easily stop being readable at the drop of a hat. And they did!
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:29:24 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: spintreebob
For a brief period of time, this was state of the art for portable storage.
To: spintreebob
I still have the original blue clunker that plugged into a parallel printer port. If you used the drive while printing to an early inkjet, you'd get some wild colors, man
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:31:45 PM PDT
by
varyouga
To: GraceG
Click of death is why I never bought one. Any drive that randomly dies and kills the disk it’s working on it’s a safe system to store files on.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:33:10 PM PDT
by
RedWulf
(#purge the nevertrumpers)
To: PBRCat; Mr. K; blueunicorn6; ObozoMustGo2012; hecticskeptic; stylin19a; The Westerner; ...
Does your vote count? and count? and count?
To: spintreebob
I had three zip discs with all my work on them. One work and two backups. The click of death killed them all. I never used zip discs again.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:36:21 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: varyouga
My dad has one all bagged up in a carry with 11 extra disks. You want to buy it?
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:37:34 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: VanDeKoik
I was fortunate, i never had a disk fail on me.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:38:39 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
They later on made zip disks that conndted via usb.
Both are now found on ebay.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:39:21 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
I still have files on zip disks. They were a godsend to small publishing shops that depended on Page Maker and Photoshop. Some musicians were tied into them as well. Things change rapidly in this business, well except for Mac Pros.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:39:25 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Must learn to resist the compunction to offer advice or help to complainers.)
To: VanDeKoik
But 30 bucks for 100MB? Seems like a bad joke now especially how those things could easily stop being readable at the drop of a hat. And they did! I paid $875.00 for my first 1 gig Conner hard drive. My first hard drive was a Sider 10 megabyte that I paid $400.00 for, used.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:41:47 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Must learn to resist the compunction to offer advice or help to complainers.)
To: GraceG
You would want to retreive a copy of something. You put a zip disk in the zip drive and click, click, click - the click of death - the disk damaged itself and you could not get the files off the disk. I had backup copies of anything really important. At the time the Zip disk was a miracle when compared against the floppy disk. Zip disks were everywhere for 10 or 12 years and the they disappeared almost overnight.
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:43:14 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Wilhelm Tell
cheap CD-Rs CD-RWs and USB flash drives killed off the zip drive
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posted on
03/22/2017 5:44:57 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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