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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

I had a tower PC around 2000 with a zip drive. I had 1 zip disk, which I seem to recall having cost $35 for 100mb of storage. I didn't know anyone else with a zip drive, nor were there other computers on campus with a zip drive. It was slow as fuck and seemed to get stuck in the drive randomly.