#zipdrives — Public Fediverse posts
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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 -
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/
#HackerNews #ZipDrives #90sTech #techHistory #nostalgia #dataStorage
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Hackaday: Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back On LPT. “[Minh Danh] is one of those who still has affection for Zip drives, and when his parallel port Zip 100 drive started to give up the ghost last year, he decided to do something bold: reverse engineer it, and produce an emulator. First software, and then in hardware.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/hackaday-zip-drive-emulator-puts-big-disks-back-on-lpt/ -
#WriteOnceReadNever also describes my old Zip drives! @Asbestos @etchedpixels
#WORN #ZipDrives #ClickOfDeath