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Its funny to me to see someone who sees such a different perspective of the 90's. My family was one of the poorest of the area. My dad was a janitor. We had one of the many generic clone pcs back in the late 80's. Had to park the hard drive and everything. My friend from a wealthier family was never without one just for him. It was not a family computer. I built my first sometime around 98. We both used zip or zip like devices. zip was a bit to expensive but many less techy folk used them. I went gaga over a competitor that had huge disks relative to them but I can't for the life of me remember the name. Certainly students in the lab I worked in were still using them well into the early aughts. Its really flash drives that killed them. I should look through my old box of stuff and I kinda wonder if I may have one sitting in there. Burning a disc was just not as convenient as saving a file.