This week's video video arrived with this email:
Dick and Chad,
Here is a video of another item that is in my gadget warehouse. (Iomega's Super Disc Drive.)
https://youtu.be/D5lCNWBcoA8
One item I forgot to mention in the video is that I still use the old drives from time to time. Mainly it is when someone finds an old disc that contains some data that they they found but they have no way to read the disc.
As a side note, I still have an old 5.25" floppy drive for that same purpose.
A person reached out to me when an aunt had passed away and they found that all of her genealogy work was backed up on 5.25 floppy discs. I copied all of the 5.25" discs to a USB drive and the person was so very grateful.
Anyway, thank you for the show! Ryan Winkler
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1647
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Letter of the week:
From: blagua
(WHO INCLUDES A PHOTO FROM OUR 'DICK'S GADGET WAREHOUSE' VIDEO, AND ASKS:
Is this a typo? Should it read “They’re” instead. Thanks.
November 1, 2017 
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