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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk was 120 MB, but it came after the Zip drive, not before. The ones that came bef
by vikingerik 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk was 120 MB, but it came after the Zip drive, not before.
The ones that came before the Zip were the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_Box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_Box , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floptical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floptical , and various flavors of magneto-optical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive
- hinkley 3y agoInterestingly that article says Iomega was working in these five fore the Zip drive and abandoned the idea for Zip, others picked it up and ran with it. But the article asserts they came out in 1997 - with no citation, and my friend had moved by 1996 so I think that date is off by a year or so. Though given where he worked it’s theoretically possible someone have him a prerelease version as a developer prototype. Edit: PC Mag claims 1996 https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/ls-120 https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/ls-120 And the NYT says March 1996: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/11/business/3m-chases-the-dream-of-building-a-better-disk.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/11/business/3m-chases-the-dr...