My Uncle is looking to buy an external zip drive for his laptop. I suggested he look into a CDRW. I don't know much about zip drives, but CDRWs seem more useful. His work uses all zip drives, but he ...

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 cartridge ...

Kids today will never know the tyranny of the 1.44MB floppy disk. So traumatic was this format that today the "save" icon in our apps still looks like it, even though no one has actually used it for ...

We have received a number of corroborating reports, suggesting that Iomega Zip drives experience very slow transfer rates under a variety of systems running Mac OS X 10.2.x. 100 MB Disks Joe Ligotti ...

When the Zip drive first arrived on the scene, the storage market was itching for affordable, easy-to-use, and higher-capacity removable media. Iomega’s latest offering, the Zip 750MB FireWire ...

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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 cartridge ...

As Ian Malcolm in Spielberg’s Jurassic Park famously said, “…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” YouTuber napabar should have ...

We had to leave early today due to bad weather and closings and such, and knowing that I'd be bored I brought home 2 of our 10-20 used SCSI Zip 100 drives that are just sitting around. I set them up ...

The floppy ruled removable storage for decades, but it quickly became too small and spurred on many pretenders to the throne. Yet while many tried to topple the floppy from its throne, it clung on far ...

Recap: Iomega introduced its removable floppy disk storage system in the mid-90s. While its medium-to-high-capacity disks were highly coveted, the format never became popular enough to replace the ...

The Harold B. Lee Library is phasing out zip and floppy disk drives on most of its open-access computers, and library staff members are suggesting that patrons use other forms of media to save their ...