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22 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/business/investing-it-the-talk-of-cyberspace-is-iomega-losing-its-zip.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/b

22 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/business/investing-it-the-talk-of-cyberspace-is-iomega-losing-its-zip.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/business/investing-it-the...

hkmurakami 8y ago
Just going to say that I loved my Zip drive!
- raverbashing 8y ago
  True! Before USB drives they were great at the job. And my unit wasn't affected by the click of death apparently.
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charlesdm 8y ago
22 year ago, in 1996, 5 years before the dot-com bubble burst
entropie 8y ago
Minidisc, anyone? I still do not really understand why this wasnt more successful (at least by the time CDs existed/were used)
- smacktoward 8y ago
  Why MiniDisc wasn't more successful, or why Iomega wasn't more successful? For Iomega, it was because of terrible quality control, leading to fiascos like the Zip drive "click of death" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_drives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_driv...). A storage vendor whose products develop a reputation for frequent, catastrophic data loss isn't going to stick around long. For MiniDisc, it was because MD didn't offer a clear leap up from what you could get from compact discs, and because Sony couldn't help but be Sony and go off and develop their own system while everyone else in the industry was using a different one (DCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette).
  - _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
    For the majority of people this is obviously true, but my MD was so much better than my Discman. I could record MDs and it was rock stable, while the Discman (even the later models with buffer) would jump all the time. Would have loved to own DAT, but was too expensive.
  - cm2187 8y ago
    For zip drives, also because it became cheaper and faster to burn a CD, then came usb keys.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  Still have my minidisc somewhere, loved it. Though I think my latest was from Sharp and I could record, not from Sony.
paulpauper 8y ago
that must suck..to have the misfortune of buying that stock instead of AOL, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Dell, Microsoft..anything else would have been better. It goes to show how you can lose money even i n a boom if have bad luck, but also a good reason to diversify. .

22 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/business/investing-it-the-talk-of-cyberspace-is-iomega-losing-its-zip.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/business/investing-it-the...

hkmurakami 8y ago

Just going to say that I loved my Zip drive!

raverbashing 8y ago
True! Before USB drives they were great at the job. And my unit wasn't affected by the click of death apparently.

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charlesdm 8y ago

22 year ago, in 1996, 5 years before the dot-com bubble burst

entropie 8y ago

Minidisc, anyone? I still do not really understand why this wasnt more successful (at least by the time CDs existed/were used)

smacktoward 8y ago
Why MiniDisc wasn't more successful, or why Iomega wasn't more successful? For Iomega, it was because of terrible quality control, leading to fiascos like the Zip drive "click of death" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_drives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_driv...). A storage vendor whose products develop a reputation for frequent, catastrophic data loss isn't going to stick around long. For MiniDisc, it was because MD didn't offer a clear leap up from what you could get from compact discs, and because Sony couldn't help but be Sony and go off and develop their own system while everyone else in the industry was using a different one (DCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette).
- _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
  For the majority of people this is obviously true, but my MD was so much better than my Discman. I could record MDs and it was rock stable, while the Discman (even the later models with buffer) would jump all the time. Would have loved to own DAT, but was too expensive.
- cm2187 8y ago
  For zip drives, also because it became cheaper and faster to burn a CD, then came usb keys.
_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
Still have my minidisc somewhere, loved it. Though I think my latest was from Sharp and I could record, not from Sony.

paulpauper 8y ago

that must suck..to have the misfortune of buying that stock instead of AOL, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Dell, Microsoft..anything else would have been better. It goes to show how you can lose money even i n a boom if have bad luck, but also a good reason to diversify. .