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Zip drives were supposed to end the floppy era—until one design flaw destroyed everything

The contagious hardware failure that turned Zip disks into data traps ...
Hackaday

From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega

If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive ...
Ars Technica

I made a RAID of Zip drives

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 ...
Hackaday

Zip drive

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 ...
Ars Technica

Back to the 20th century: Zip Drive + Parallel Port question.

I recently acquired an external (100MB) Zip drive and disks for a small amount of money (long story short: I can now inexpensively transport large files between home and the university).<BR>There are ...