No love for SyQuest round here?
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You have to be a) old enough to have been working with very expensive machines in the late 80s and early 90s, but b) not so old that you're a complete luddite.
I was in newspaper publishing, so yeah, I went through a 44, 88 and EZ135 drives. Zip 100s might not have been as quick, but they were a lot cheaper and they seemed more ubiquitous, where Syquest was kind of a crapshoot.
I have one in return: do you remember:
- the LS120 drive?
- Magneto-optical drives?
Holy shit, magneto-optical. Never had a drive, but I remember thinking it sounded so high tech.
You may have stumped me with the LS120. Ima have to look that one up.
(Alt text: a photo of a yellow Famicom Disk System game disk labeled The Legend of Zelda in Japanese)
I kept so much porn on them to hide it from my parents haha.
I do remember hearing about the PowerMac G3 (the blue one) that supported Zip disks. That's all I remember about them, unfortunately.
My old PMG3 (beige, the first one) came with a Zip drive. I still have that machine, and the Zip drive in it still works.
Good to know
Memory unlocked! I thankfully never had any issues with them. I too called flash drives zip disks for a while, but eventually stopped.