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Writing off the Zip disk as a footnote is incredibly weird to me. They were massively popular and everywhere, especially before CD-Rs got cheap. I probably have
by chungy 3y ago
Writing off the Zip disk as a footnote is incredibly weird to me. They were massively popular and everywhere, especially before CD-Rs got cheap. I probably have more Zip disks in my closet than 3½" floppies.
- mrWiz 3y agoIn my experience you couldn't assume that a person had a Zip drive. My family didn't have one, but given some effort/motivation I'm sure I could have found a way to read a Zip disk I was given.
- rasz 3y agoclick of death killed ZIPs as serious proposition
- cubefox 3y agoWhat was the percentage of PCs sold that came with a Zip drive by default? In Germany it was approximately 0%. So most people didn't have one. It was purely used as an external drive for backup purposes.
- chungy 3y agoThere were a good few years in the late 1990s that it seemed every prebuilt PC in America had them.