#zipdrive — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, the Zip drive! The floppy disk's cooler, edgier cousin that wore out its welcome faster than a dial-up connection 🚀📼. The article drones on with #nostalgia, forgetting that the real reason they vanished is nobody misses a storage device that sounds like a leaf blower. 🌪️💾
https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/ #ZipDrive #FloppyDiskTech #ObsoleteStorage #TechThrowback #HackerNews #ngated

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/

From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega

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

From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega

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

When was your last #Terminal session in #Windows3 to transfer a few driver files via xmodem protocol? My successful try is a few minutes ago and now the small and handy #HP #OmniBook #HP600C can speak with the #ZipDrive.
#RetroComputing #MSDOS

When you did that "put an old Macintosh on the Internet" thing already in the late 1990s and nobody cared (or mainly considered you a silly stupid nerd). #macintoshplus #ppp #zipdrive

The Iomega Zip Drive was a revolutionary storage device introduced in 1994, offering a whopping 100MB of portable storage in an era dominated by floppy disks. Though it faced stiff competition from CD-RWs and USB flash drives, the Zip Drive holds a special place in tech history for its innovation and impact on data storage solutions in the late '90s and early 2000s.
🏷️ #RetroTech #1990sTech #VintageComputing #NostalgiaTech #OldSchoolTech #TechHistory #ThrowbackTechnology #ZipDrive #ClassicTech

Got ‘er open, and was able to watch the #ZipDrive attempt to load the heads. It tries twice, and gives up. It doesn’t look like it’s moving far enough to get stuck on anything (as some others had reported happening), so I wonder if this is a power issue? Seems odd my #G4 #MDD wouldn’t have enough current as it’s got no spinning drives, but I’ll gonna try these drives in another PC tomorrow. #retrocomputing

This doesn’t appear to be the ‘click of death’ I remember hearing about. It almost sounds like it’s trying to open the shutter twice, failing, and giving up.
#ZipDrive #reteocomputing