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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I had a teacher who had one and I thought it'd be cool to not need as many floppies. But that's the only time I was ever near one, and I don't think I ever held one in my hands. Then I forgot because better stuff came along ๐Ÿ˜›