As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive
got a heck of a lot further than most of its competitors. It managed to
improve on a format people were used to (the old floppy) just enough
that it ensured it’d gain popularity. It fit niches for people who had
to share a lot of data. And it even had a sizable base of home
users—which was impressive for its time. But the Zip drive was a
famously problematic product, and one whose faults created big problems
for Iomega. Today’s Tedium talks about the Zip drive, along with the era
of proprietary PC storage. We’re going into some SCSI territory.
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Peterk
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