removing the article about zip drives

[Chris Rees]

On 31 October 2012 12:26, Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc at fjl.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31/10/2012 01:46, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to remove
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/index.html
>>
>> - it is old
>
>
> True - doesn't mention USB version, and comments in the introduction are
> dated (100Mb isn't exactly high capacity any longer).
>
>
>> and crufty
>> - some instructions are now wrong
>
>
> Pity
>
>
>> - no one uses ZIP drives anymore
>
>
> Not so! Not often, but there is data on Zip cartridges out there, the same
> as there is on floppy disks. I come across them about once a year, but I'm
> nerdy like that.
>
> Whilst the article in question could benefit from an update, its the best
> there is. I wonder if 64-bit Windows is capable of working with some Zip
> drives any longer. This is another good reason to use FreeBSD.
>
> I have a collection of pretty much every Zip drive ever made (and some still
> work!); I could try out the instructions and see what still works.
>

You may have a point, but it's unfortunate for your argument that you
chose to compare Zip drives with floppies-- we have also removed the
floppy installation instructions....

Chris