The #iomega #jaz format truly has the best failure mode of any storage medium: it appears that even on a pretty messed up disk WRITES pretty much always succeed (at least, according to the drive)

READS however, are a different story...

Iomega: because it's your stuff™

#retrocomputing

I found a zip drive in the wild! I remember debating with myself whether I should get one of these. I ended up just buying a single disk and using it at the lab where I worked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

#oldTech #computers #seattle #zipDrive #iomega

@glitzersachen @Yuki propblem is that AFAIK all #LTO drive mechanisms are made exclusively by #IBM and at a pretty premium.

• Compared to the masses of consumer ODDs, #TapeDrives have been on a steady decline since the proprietary destandardization of #QIC #TapeDrives & -media in the early 90s.

I acquired an #iomega #ditto 800 about two decades ago...

Mitä tapahtui aikoinaan hyvinkin suosituille Zip-levyille?

Korppujen korvikkeet ehtivät nauttia suosionsa huipusta vain parin vuoden ajan.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/07/20/mita-tapahtui-iomega-zip-levyille

#iomega #iomegazip #historia #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka

Iomega ZIP Solutions CD

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/iomega-zip-solutions-cd

(v1.0)

#macgarden #drivershardwaresupport #2001 #iomega

Roba da patiti di retrocomputing

In radio passano gli Stadio con "Chiedimi chi erano i Beatles" e da qualche cassetto della memoria è spuntato un "Chiedimi cos'erano SyQuest, Iomega e il famigerato click della morte "

#retrocomputing #SyQuest #Iomega

I'll probably never own a drive to read those, but these are some very impressive floppy disk cartridges. Also, 20 megs in 1984 - that's more than a typical hard disk had at that time. 😲

#IOMEGA #Bernoulli #RetroComputing #ObsoleteMedia

Got 2 of these working on my #Commodore #Amiga 1200 today, a parallel version of the #iOmega Zip drive and a SCSI one of the Zip drive Plus. 100MB per disk, in a time where the HDD was 120MB, seemed excessive.

Have a SCSI 2GB Jaz drive still to test but I don't have the fitting SCSI cable yet. Side note: all the different existent SCSI standards are a special, and expensive, kind of hell. #Retrocomputing #retro