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Zip disks were so awesome at introduction. Huge, rewriteable, removable, portable, and cheap (both hardware and media). And this was in an era where 28.8k modem
by sowbug 10y ago
Zip disks were so awesome at introduction. Huge, rewriteable, removable, portable, and cheap (both hardware and media). And this was in an era where 28.8k modems were considered fast, so local storage mattered.
But the day I burned my first CD-R a few years later in the mid-1990s, I felt like a god among mortals. Zip disks were mostly obsolete after that.
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- kalleboo 10y agoFor the same price, I had the choice of buying an external SCSI harddisk, a Zip drive, or a Syquest drive. (Syquest soon went bust so at least I dodged a bullet there) I went for the Zip drive and used it as basically an external harddisk. For the computer I had at the time (a 68K Mac), it was actually perfectly performant as a harddisk replacement - I had one disk of games, one disk of Office, etc.
- angry_octet 10y agoNo way, you had to master CDs, you needed a dedicated 700MB SCSI disk to write it too, then it took forever to burn (1x burners people, 1x). And you might have made a coaster. In contrast, ZIP disks were fast, scratch proof, reusable.