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SELLER Paula Abdul BUYER Tom Arnold DESCRIPTION Beaut peach 6,800-sq.-ft. Spanish-style villa in excl 90210 ZIP. Gated comm, 5 brs, pond w exotic Japanese fish, fntn, winding pool leads to sunny kit. Many convs. Stunning vus PRICE $2.4 million (although it was valued at $3.2 million...
SELLER Jasper Johns BUYER Spike Lee DESCRIPTION Lvly Italianate 4-stry, 9,000-sq.-ft. home in prestig 10021 ZIP. Courtyd w fntn, 32-ft. frontage, once owned by Gypsy Rose Lee! PRICE With the place next door, which was bought by a nonceleb, a reported $7.2 million (Johns paid $4.77 million...
There is no such generic term (yet) for the storage medium that's quickly replacing the standard floppy. Instead, each of the competitors in this booming market is selling its own thing: ultra-high-density floppies by many other names. You've probably heard of the Zip drive, for instance, the purple-hued peripheral from Iomega that reads and writes to 100-meg removable discs. Lots of people use Zips at my office. So, a few months ago, instead of doing a lick of research, I bolted out to the nearest Staples and picked up a Zip drive...
...what should you buy? That depends on what you need. The pricing and performance of the drives and storage medium--as I show on my website at time.com this week--make for good comparison shopping. While the Zip is easy to set up and has a commanding lead in the marketplace, it won't run traditional floppies. If you have a drawerful of 1.44s, you'll need a separate floppy drive to read them. The SuperDisk drive has its own 120-MB discs but can run regular old floppies too. And if you can wait until late fall...
...page looking for something like free, trial software. Many sites won't let you proceed to their goodies without divulging some personal data--which they will shamelessly rent, sell or trade to who knows whom. So I simply make up a name, address, phone number, zip code or e-mail address. And I encourage my children to do the same...