Saturday, July 7, 2007

Ahh, the joys of zip drives

So after my long absence, I've been playing aroudn with my Comapq Aero 4/25, I've finished with the Compaq and now I have been creating a book with it, a neat hobby to be sure.

The Compaq's tiny keyboard is a challenge to work with, I normally use a laptop with an external keyboard to type with, but the Aero's lack of a port for a keyboard means that I have to learn how to type all over again.

Cool!

The "problem" that I have run into is a catch 22 in that windows 95 makes using a zip drive a snap, the Aero's native Windows 3.1, doesn't support zip drives, you have to use DOS and I hate Dos, Dos is the geek's gate across the bridge of general computer usage.

So on it goes, type and save to a cough cough "floppy disk" then save that to a zip drive, then convert that to a Open Office doucment, then edit and then ......