Marion Andrew wrote:
>
> We are the proud owners of a new FACSCalibur from BD and are trying to
> decide on the best way to store our data - both for back up and long term
> archiving. Initially, at least, the machine will be used by only 1 or 2
> users and it is not expected that it will be acquiring data every day, let
> alone all day. However, the user pool may expand, but not too dramatically.
> The options we are considering are a ZIP drive with 10Mb discs or a JAZZ
> drive with 1Gb discs. Does anyone have negative or positive comments about
> either storage system? How reliable are these discs?
>
> Also the rest of our computers are PCs attached to a LAN. It would be
> technically and politically awkward to put the FACS Macintosh onto the LAN,
> so we are looking at ways of transferring data. The suggestion so far has
> been to install MicroSoft Office on the Mac, transfer files from CELLQUEST
> to PowerPoint on the Mac and then transfer them by floppy to a PC, where we
> should be able to reformat from MAC to PC-based PowerPoint on our LAN. Does
> anyone have other options, or should this work OK?
>
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