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The Tragic End of Iomega: The $7 Billion Zip Drive Giant That Ruled PC Storage Then Destroyed Itself - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9d22CIhXaE

#Tech #TechHistory #IOMega #ZipDrives

And done...

#iomega #Bernoulli #RetroComputing

This was my weekend project... Last year I got an external 5.25" #iomega #Bernoulli disk drive (the 90/150 MB variant). Sadly, those "portable" drives had an SCSI enclosure made out of plastic and due to the way it was handled, the case was badly broken with missing parts - hence beyond repair.

Took me quite some time to find a fitting replacement enclosure. I wanted one with no audio-out ports on the back, as that is not a CD-ROM and I did not want unused ports. Second, the face plate is non-standard and ever so slightly larger than a normal one, so the drive did not fit in any of the SCSI cases I had. However, a few weeks ago, I finally found a perfect one - or so I thought...

After installing the drive and hook up all cables, powering it up did nothing. Of course, the PSU in this enclosure was broken - who had guessed. So I spend three days creating a new one incl. a mounting plate, fitting connectors etc.

Only have to wire up the SCSI ID selector switch and then it's done.

#RetroComputing

Bernoulli Disk Goes “Wii!” When Plugged Into WiiU

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/20/bernoulli-disk-goes-wii-when-plugged-into-wiiu/

👾 Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

｢ Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive. In terms of physical size, Zip disks were only slightly larger than a typical floppy, yet the initial capacity introduced in 1994 reached a whopping 100MB, which was huge number when put up against the traditional floppy disk ｣

https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/

#zipdrive #iomega #nostalgia #retrocomputing

Current mission, recycle, repurpose or recoil! That iMac has a glitchy screen, Logic/MBoard issue? There's maybe a slim chance I could install and run minimal Debian on it for 'something'. Yes, that's a MKI AppleTV you can see. Three laptops and misc hard drives (even an IDE).

#Recycling #Technology #Repurposing #Computers #Laptop #iMac #AppleTV #Linux #Debian #SonyVaio #Samsung #Iomega #WesternDigital #Maxtor #HomeLab #HomeNetwork #HeathRobinson #DuctTape #String #sata #ide

From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

#iomega

From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

Now, I’m not exactly what you would call a retro hardware enthusiast, but even I knew Iomega never made a FireWire ZIP drive.

Picked up an accessory to go with my Bernoulli drive. #shiny #digipres #iomega

Дорого, красиво, прогрессивно — история краха Iomega Zip

На дворе 1995 год. Ваш цифровой мир зажат в тисках трехдюймовых дискет, которые вмещают смешные по нынешним меркам 1,44 МБ. Передать документы или программы — целая история, порой требующая целой стопки дисков. И тут на сцене появляется Iomega Zip с ее фантастическими 100 МБ!

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ispsystem/articles/964686/

#zip #iomega #zip_диск

Look what I found on a regional flea market. #iomega #bernoulli #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

The #iomega #jaz format truly has the best failure mode of any storage medium: it appears that even on a pretty messed up disk WRITES pretty much always succeed (at least, according to the drive)

READS however, are a different story...

Iomega: because it's your stuff™

#retrocomputing

Mitä tapahtui aikoinaan hyvinkin suosituille Zip-levyille?

Korppujen korvikkeet ehtivät nauttia suosionsa huipusta vain parin vuoden ajan.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/07/20/mita-tapahtui-iomega-zip-levyille

#iomega #iomegazip #historia #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka

I'll probably never own a drive to read those, but these are some very impressive floppy disk cartridges. Also, 20 megs in 1984 - that's more than a typical hard disk had at that time. 😲

#IOMEGA #Bernoulli #RetroComputing #ObsoleteMedia

Got 2 of these working on my #Commodore #Amiga 1200 today, a parallel version of the #iOmega Zip drive and a SCSI one of the Zip drive Plus. 100MB per disk, in a time where the HDD was 120MB, seemed excessive.

Have a SCSI 2GB Jaz drive still to test but I don't have the fitting SCSI cable yet. Side note: all the different existent SCSI standards are a special, and expensive, kind of hell. #Retrocomputing #retro

Ok, nix explodiert und das Laufwerk meldet "ready", wenn die Disk eingelegt ist. 🙂 Richtig testen kann ich erst später, wenn das Laufwerk wieder in einem externen SCSI-Gehäuse verbaut ist und ich einen Mac mit SCSI aufgebaut habe.

#IOMEGA #Bernoulli #RetroComputing

Zur Abwechselung etwas #SCSI-Zeugs: zwei 4/8 GB DAT-Streamer, der linke vom Design her definitiv für alte Macs gedacht.

Ein 150 MB #IOMEGA #Bernoulli-Laufwerk. Gehäuse ist leider aus Plastik und an etlichen Stellen gebrochen. Laufwerk scheint, zumindest mechanisch, aber ok zu sein.

Und noch ein schöner SCSI-Tower. 🥳

#RetroComputing

Good news everyone! I wrote up my notes about the Iomega Zip drive proprietary SCSI commands and mode pages!
These work for parallel-port drives too, as they're a SCSI drive and a parallel adapter in a trenchcoat.

https://www.philpem.me.uk/oldcomp/iomega_zip_jaz

#IomegaZip #Iomega #IomegaJaz #RetroComputing

EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: A single Iomega Jaz disk. It's labeled NT 2000 JAZ, for what that's worth. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Iomega #Jaz

EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: A 3.5" internal SCSI Zip drive. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #ZipDrive #Iomega #SCSI

So after purchasing brand new blank media for my Iomega 250mb ZIP drive, was time to give this disk format tech from 1999 a go on Windows 98!

It's super quiet on file transfers and with my internal drive connected via IDE cable could easily fill a disk within a few minutes.

Impressive stuff!

#retrocomputing #zip #iomega #windows98

/* 10 Apr 1998 (Good Friday) - Received EN144302 by email from Iomega. Scarry thing is the level of support from one of their managers. The onus is now on us (the developers) to shut up and start coding. */

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.6/source/drivers/scsi/imm.h#L17-L19

#linux #kernel #scsi #iomega

My retro Windows 98 computer is complete.

Finished off with an Iomega 250mb zip drive.

AMD Athlon 2000+
512MB RAM
128GB IDE to Micro SD
2x Voodoo 12mb SLI graphics cards
Matrox Mystique 220 (2D/3D)
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Yamaha SW1000XG

It's been a really fun build!

Beige is beautiful!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #3dfx #windows98 #iomega

Un día recibes un paquete que te envía una amiga desde San Diego, y descubres dentro la confirmación de que tiene muy presente tu gusto por la tecnología vintage.

Unidad IOMEGA ZIP y dos cajas selladas de discos ZIP de 100 y 250 Mb para #MacOS

#retrocomputing #zip #iomega