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

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[–] hesh@quokk.au 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These were my exact thoughts. I knew one guy with a zip drive.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I guess I was that guy. My first Zip drive had a Centronics interface (you younguns won't understand). I spent months trying to get it to work with passthrough behind the printer and the scanner. Ended up buying a Centronics card with two additional ports. After only a few hours of mucking about with interrupts it sort of worked. Next I got an internal one with an ISA interface. Felt very high tech. Shortly after I got my first CD-RW drive and all that shit was completely obsolete.