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The Iomega Zip Drive: A Quick History
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knowledgefi...@hotmail.com  
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  More options Jun 17 2007, 6:29 am
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From: knowledgefi...@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:29:04 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Sun, Jun 17 2007 6:29 am
Subject: The Iomega Zip Drive: A Quick History
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For many years the floppy disk dominated the data backup market for the home user as they offered affordable data storage. Ok using floppies was akward, slow and highly unreliable but at the time it was all we had. Then along came the Zip drive and the world of data backup changed overnight thanks to the creator of the Zip drive - Iomega. No longer were you restricted to a paltry 1.4MB of disk storage - now you could fit 100MB on one single Zip...

Read full article at http://www.knowledgefield.com/articles/the-iomega-zip-drive-a-quick-h...


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  More options Jun 19 2007, 12:04 am
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From: GHalleck <ghall...@arrakian.mining.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:04:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: The Iomega Zip Drive: A Quick History
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knowledgefi...@hotmail.com wrote:
> For many years the floppy disk dominated the data backup market for the home user as they offered affordable data storage. Ok using floppies was akward, slow and highly unreliable but at the time it was all we had. Then along came the Zip drive and the world of data backup changed overnight thanks to the creator of the Zip drive - Iomega. No longer were you restricted to a paltry 1.4MB of disk storage - now you could fit 100MB on one single Zip...

> Read full article at http://www.knowledgefield.com/articles/the-iomega-zip-drive-a-quick-h...

Actually, the Bernoulli 44 MB drive was the immediate predecessor of
the ZIP drive.

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