From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega
From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega
If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive purple peripheral, with its satisfying clunk as you slotted in a cartri…Hackaday
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in reply to ProfTriathlon • • •I worked in the tech dept at my school part time and I got to keep all the Zip disks that had no name and no one claimed after the end of the semester.
I had shelves.
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Em Adespoton
in reply to lostwonder • • •Despite the fact that click death was avoidable with a simple bracket OR an updated driver AND only affected their very first product, I won’t really miss them.
If Jazz drives had been their first product and at a reasonable price point, things probably would’ve gone differently for them.
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in reply to lostwonder • • •IMO the Zip disks, Jaz disks, and MiniDiscs were the last really satisfying physical media formats (UMD was also really cool, but somehow even more niche given it was PSP-specific).
There was something about them that just made you feel like a secret agent using them. Like a prop out of a James Bond movie where the villain keeps their plans.
CDs and DVDs had nothing on them.