Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)
ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?
I wish, I was young and it wasn’t cheap. My pc had some alternative, maybe super disk? (it also took floppies) Didn’t get any of those disks either.
My dad was a techie who always got cool software and games for his computer, way before I was even born. He still keeps his old stuff in the house.
However, last time I checked, I don’t ever remember seeing a Zip disk anywhere in the house. Not even a Zip drive. It was all just floppy disks and CDs.
We had to buy our own for high school, about $5 each. They were used for CAD file storage.
A friend of mine did. He used a lot of video-stuff, so that was his way of archiving.
The drive died with the infamour click of death after a couple of years of use.
I have one still. The 124mb one I think. Its how I load samples onto my old Emu e5000 rack sampler. Havent used it in years though. Hopefully it still works.
