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

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[–] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because click click click click click click dead drive

[–] Poop@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

The click of death problem when these first came out did them in. They got off to a hobble with so much bad press about it nobody wanted to rely on them. Also, they were not cheap.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

burning disks and then flash drives.