ZIP was fairly successful until writable CDs came along. The biggest problem was the click of death. I remember collecting multiple drives in the late 1990’s tr

ZIP was fairly successful until writable CDs came along. The biggest problem was the click of death. I remember collecting multiple drives in the late 1990’s trying to find one that didn’t have that issue. I guess they could have done a more open standard, but I’m not sure it would have helped them. I recall Superdisk was a slightly more open standard around the same time (maybe a little later) and it went no where.