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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I still have a dozen or Zip disks from high school and university. Perhaps even a drive around, somewhere, just in case I want to look at some really old term papers! I don't miss them; the notorious click of death got me one too many times.

[–] Deebster 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah yes, the click of death. Given that, this but in the article made me laugh:

There was also the PocketZip format, initially called Clik!

I guess Iomega quickly changed the name on that one.