• GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      My family had a zip drive growing up. Then again, my dad is a doctor, so our income might have had something to do with it.

      • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I’ve got a handful of zip disks, but no drive. I asked on the town bulletin board and nobody else seems to have one I can borrow. It was a short-lived intermediate format, so I’m not surprised.

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      1 year ago

      super popular at universities and schools where stuff wouldn’t fit on 1.44mb floppies.

      they died at astonishingly fast rates, often starting the click of death after a few weeks of read/writes. fucking iomega.