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ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017

Entry 21st June 2017: Post: 03


Surf Squirrel


Hi

Finally.. finally after all these years I can confirm that the Surf 
Squirrel does work. Amazing really. Finally all the bits came together 
and fired up. Yesterday I found in a large tin a load of useful 
connectors. One was a short connector that basically connected a large 
centronics SCSI to the smaller that you find on the SCSI Iomega ZIP 
drives. The other month I found the Surf Squirrel Software and did try 
if you recall but failed with a cable I bought off Ebay. This Surf 
Squirrel has been kicking around in a drawer for over ten years and I've 
never been able to get it to work.

Last night I really was struggling with my Amiga 1200 gaming computer 
with hard drive space. I was swapping the drive out and deleting and 
moving items just to free up a few megabytes. I got to thinking whether 
this new connector would help. Anyway I rescued the SCSI ZIP drive yet 
again from my pile of drives. Hooked up the Surf Squirrel and plugged 
into the PCMCIA on the 1200. I installed the software including the CD32 
emulator. I then put a ZIP in the drive. Fired up CED and edited the 
mount file and placed both a PC and Amiga ZIP and ZIC in the DosDrivers 
drawer.  I was actually holding the ZIP in my lap when I booted. And the 
joy as the yellow light flickered as the machine booted and there was 
the PC disk and Amiga.

I quickly formatted the ZIP and set up the drive as a button with DOpus 
and now I'm moving a 100mb of stuff off the computer on to the ZIP and 
making life so much easier for me.

Time for a bit of Arcade Snooker to celebrate.

scuzz



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