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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.
Yes. Hated them
Friend won a Zip drive at a computer conference and then we won a Jazz drive at the next one. He used iOmega stickers to write “Zip it” on his shirt. We used iOmega buttons to write “i Ω” across our shirts.
They were a nice alternative to the Syquest and Bernoulli disks we were using at the time–inasmuch as they were cheaper and I didn’t need to worry if the person I was going to send a file to had a 44, 88, 135 or 270 MB SyQuest: almost everyone had a Zip drive.
…but the click-of-death hurt them, and the ubiquity of CDRs and USB thumb drives was the real end.
(Alt text: a photo of a yellow Famicom Disk System game disk labeled The Legend of Zelda in Japanese)
No love for SyQuest round here?
You have to be a) old enough to have been working with very expensive machines in the late 80s and early 90s, but b) not so old that you’re a complete luddite.
I was in newspaper publishing, so yeah, I went through a 44, 88 and EZ135 drives. Zip 100s might not have been as quick, but they were a lot cheaper and they seemed more ubiquitous, where Syquest was kind of a crapshoot.
I have one in return: do you remember:
- the LS120 drive?
- Magneto-optical drives?