It seems these days the Zip drive is mostly remembered for breaking easily. Incidentally, I ended up getting an Iomega Zip-CD (a.k.a. It still existed as an option on the Power Macs until 2002, which annoyed me since the special Zip drive bay stopped you from installing a second CD drive (something that was quite common at the time). I find them both stylish and interesting historical artifacts.īy the time I got my first own computer, a Power Mac G4 in the autumn of 2000, it felt like the Zip was already on it’s way out. I’ve saved a small case holding two disks (one grey and one green). He had an external Zip-100 hooked up over SCSI. My father used to work as a freelance artist and for a few years in the late 90’s Zip disks were the standard way to transfer big files to customers and print shops.
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