I think I would go with the CD writer...I have  a zip drive at home and to buy zip disks it costs a lot like around $15 per disk! it only holds 100 MB of info and you can only use it on a computer that has a zip drive.....however if you do it with CD's, they can hold around 600 MB
of info they are a whole lot cheaper than zip disks I think it was about $2 per CD  or so and you can use them on any CD rom drive :) it just makes sense to me to go the CD way :) I happen to think ZIP drives are useless!

Laura Bajuk wrote:

> Hi all - I'm another non-registrar having to answer a question in coll. mgt.
> - I'll also check the archive for previous inquiries...
>
> Situation: We're buying a new computer - PC - and need to decide how to store
> large - esp. image - files.
>
> To use a writeable CD-rom or a Zip drive... that is the question... and we
> keep arguing here at work. Does anyone have any advice before we buy
> equipment?
>
> Please shoot me a note - or vote - off-list at [log in to unmask] - I'll be
> happy to accumulate the results and pop a master tally back to the whole list.
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> Many thanks... Laura Bajuk, ED
> Los Gatos Museum Assn.
> PO Box 1904, Los Gatos, CA  95031
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