#iomega — Public Fediverse posts
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@wyatt we came this close to that universe until Zip drives started dying a clicky death
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👾 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/
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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
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From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega
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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 -
Yesterdays cutting edge portable media is today's social media humor post. Issues in 1998-1999 the Iomega clik! drive was a 40mb external storage option. The card was about $250 ($473 today) and the media was $10 each or $ 0.25 per MB. My OWC 2TB CF Express card was $700 or 0.00035 per MB #clik! #iomega #zipdrive #storage #computer #electronics #history
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Saturday chores and I scored this #Iomega #ZipDrive at the recycling yard.🥳
I looked for the power supply, but it was nowhere to be found.🤷♂️
Going to try and find a compatible one.
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Does anyone have a raw image (DD, sector image) of an "Iomega Tools" Zip disk? I'm curious how they implemented the dual Mac/PC format.
Beware: don't put it in a PC or Mac with the Iomega Tools software installed. If it sees a Tools disk, it'll delete the other partition and 'reclaim' it as free space. Guess how I ruined mine!
Imaging on Linux with "dd" should be safe.
An unmodified disk will report as being read-only.
