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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
- apothegm 6mo agoDominated? They were pretty niche. Most people just kept using floppies, or eventually CD-Rs.
- f30e3dfed1c9 6mo agoI don't know what most people did. I know that the business I worked for then needed to transfer relatively large sets of files on a regular basis. We owned hundreds of zip disks. This was after Syquest disks and before CDs. At the time we used zip disks, CD burners were still very expensive. Later, when CD burner prices came down, we switched to those. Still later, mostly FTP.
- apothegm 6mo agoFair. At the time I wasn’t working in corporate.
- serf 6mo agothey were pretty dominant in a lot of sectors. AutoDesk products pre-cloud produced large files (well, they still do, but transport is no longer an issue.) -- so zip drives were pretty ubiquitous in design until CD-R.
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- two_handfuls 6mo agoYup. Once your drive failed (which happened to most people), you never bought from them again.