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The Real Reason Iomega Failed Spectacularly
All of that changed when a company known as Iomega introduced its “Zip drives.” With the ability to hold 100MB of data on a ...
The REV product line consists of a drive that fits in a server, PC or autoloader, along with 35-Gbyte or 70-Gbyte disk cartridges. The cartridges, unlike the Iomega's older Zip drives, are based ...
Trouble In Paradise (TIP) was a popular Windows-only tool for troubleshooting Iomega ... drives are still highly prized amongst classic Mac collectors, who use the SCSI versions as boot disks ...
The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli disks. The drive's bundled software could lock the files for security. See Bernoulli box.
Both the drive and disk cartridge are designed to be resistive to dust intrusion. All in all, Iomega has anointed the cartridge with a 30-year shelf life. Whether or not that's true, I can't help ...
Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches ... Another popular "superdisk" alternative was the Iomega Zip drive which launched with capacities ...
An earlier, low-cost, portable disk drive from Iomega. Introduced under the Clik! brand in 1999, it used floppy-like, 40MB cartridges that were half the size of a credit card and cost less than $10.