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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

The only reason I had zip drives was because I took a CAD class at the local community college which required them for saving models on the lab machines. I think we were one of the last classes to use the zip drives before flash storage started becoming ubiquitous.